Favorite lines by people who "just don't get it"

[Jean24]

"Transpeople are mentally ill! Transsexuality is a mental illness!"

followed by

"I support religious freedom for mental healthcare workers!"

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/27/475939114/tennessee-enacts-law-letting-therapists-refuse-patients-on-religious-grounds

[LizK]

My Father, Mother and at least two of my brothers told me separately and at different times over a two day period "You seem to be on some sort of transgender crusade" because I post Trans Items to them along with heaps of other stuff on Facebook...say one in 5 may have some kind of Tran's reference...Go figure

[Raell]

LOL!

Like I keep saying (and saying) this sort of ignorance seems mostly found in the USA with conservative, white evangelical Christians.

Urban Americans, especially Democrats, are more likely to accept transgender people.

The Europeans I've met here in Thailand, and the Thai, seem blase and indifferent to transgender people. Since Thai people self-identify gender as they speak, we don't have to guess.

Although everyone seems cool with it here, Thai elementary kids tease each other the same way American kids do.
For instance, the other day, a 4rth grade boy did something silly and one of friends casually called him a "kathoey" (she-male).
But nobody seemed to care or notice.