There is no excuse for transphobia.
We’re too strong for sports and too beautiful for stripping and beauty pageants? How does that work?
I was a stripper once.
I worked with cis women and they tried everything to make me feel like I didn’t belong there despite being hired to do the same job they do. When that didn’t work, it escalated to threats of violence and someone cut my brake line.
Day one —
Me: “Where is the bathroom?”
Jealous girl (an adult industry term; these were obviously grown women): “The men’s room is over there.” (The bathrooms were single-occupancy.)
Girl wanting me to be a flying monkey: screaming at jealous girl “How dare you!” Blah blah blah.
Same girl two weeks later: shades me constantly for not flying or monkeying
Another girl: seems to like me personally, but is openly transphobic
Yet another girl: fails at gassing me up and accuses me of being conceited anyway
I had good boundaries. They all had an angle.
It’s not my fault that I’m 10 years older, was AMAB, and their clients still preferred me. 😭
