I am scared of cisgender people: My time at a transgender swimming club

[stephaniec]

I am scared of cisgender people: My time at a transgender swimming club

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/12/22/i-am-scared-of-cisgender-people-my-time-at-a-transgender-swimming-club/ 🔗

Pink News/By Michelle O'Toole    12/22/2015

Resident transgender hack Michelle O'Toole went swimming for the first time since she came out as transgender. Here is what she had to say.

"So, you all know the story that keeps getting rolled out about trans people in Oscar baiting movies, not-at-all subtle Channel 4 documentaries and the odd cringe-worthy soap opera angle. The Trans Experience™ is to the 2010s what the mawkish coming out story was to 1990s.

You will have seen the tales of a trans person's epic struggle with the rubbish body they are stuck with, combating excruciating existential angst and enduring the disdain of all of those around them."

[suzifrommd]

Mixed feelings. On one hand, it's great that people who live near the place have a safe place to swim.

On the other hand it is a HUMAN DISGRACE that trans people need to have a SEPARATE POOL in order to be allowed to swim safely.

[Peep]

Mixed feelings. On one hand, it's great that people who live near the place have a safe place to swim.

On the other hand it is a HUMAN DISGRACE that trans people need to have a SEPARATE POOL in order to be allowed to swim safely.

this ^^^ and people say that the need for 'safe spaces' is over-sensitivity 

[Lyndsey]

Mixed feelings. On one hand, it's great that people who live near the place have a safe place to swim.

On the other hand it is a HUMAN DISGRACE that trans people need to have a SEPARATE POOL in order to be allowed to swim safely.

WOW

I would never be a member of a place like that. We are Humans too. I have not had a problem like this but I would speak out. and then my big mouth would out me

hug's
Lynn