yellow_fishtail@lemmy.worldtoTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Most of us will have to face transphobia and bigotry. How have you learned to respond to this?English
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8 months agoI have decided to not hide, even though I am well aware I pass. I will bring up my transness if it relates to the topic of conversation and contributes in some way. I have friends by my side and I do not live in a particularly bad area to being trans in. I am not afraid and pepper spray is legal here. Not hiding gives me the opportunity to filter out people given their responses, or they can just go away themselves.
“This would be the finishing blow to my pathetic career, who would hire/contract a weirdo like me?” Yeah turns out it didn’t hurt my career in any way and reasonable people only look at results.