Opinion | The Equality Act won't end transphobia but it will protect transgender people

As a Black trans woman, when I finished school in Michigan and began looking for a job, I could only find seasonal employment. Every time I would get an interview for a permanent position, the call back would never come. I tried everything — including dressing up as a man — to try to get a job. Every time, I was rejected. I grew up poor and had been doing sex work on and off since I was 15 to support my family. But this time, I ended up homeless, and had to do sex work full time.

I watched so much violence happen around me in Michigan, but it was when I was almost killed that I decided to leave. One night, a client tried robbed and assaulted me; my clothes were ripped off, and if my cousin, who was also doing sex work, hadn’t been nearby and driven me home, I don’t know what would have happened. I knew then that I had to move or that I would die in Detroit.So, I moved to Atlanta in 2004, hopeful that it would be a fresh start.

I had been working at my Starbucks for a year and half and had never gotten into any kind of trouble at work or even been written up. Although I hadn’t legally changed my name yet, I was able to go to work as my authentic self, and use my pronouns and my name. But then I had to transfer to a different Starbucks, and my new supervisor began to bully me. It began as subtle microaggressions: She’d refer to me using the wrong pronouns. Then, it started to escalate. She’d deny my gender, out loud and to other people. If I had a nice conversation with a customer, she’d question them loudly enough that the rest of the store would hear.

Please stop using the suffix 'phobia' to describe people who are critical of the evolving social mores around human sexuality. It is an intellectually disingenuous and subversive way to undermine one's counterposition.

Who is actually scared of trans people? Don't we ever get tired of this -phobe nonsense term added to everything?

The constant whining by the Left regarding phobias every time someone disagrees is nothing more than BS. 'A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder, defined by a persistent and excessive fear of an object or situation'. There is no fear, there is disagreement.

Weird ass people

'transgender' is made up

.6% of people are trans. Point six. How long to we have to keep hearing about this sh*t

Don't care. To the vast majority of Americans it isn't an issue to us.

im scared of trannies - one just shot up a school

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