Quote from: Hanazono on October 24, 2014, 11:59:10 AM
however; how would anyone relate being out and proud with say , closing sales prospects ?
I don't have the answer to this one, not being in business myself. But I do some free-lance work, and when I came out to two people that I have contact with, they were perfectly OK with it. In fact, one of them told me his dentist was trans.
Hanazono, these are early days yet. We transpeople haven't been in the public eye for very long, and so it's impossible to say how people will see us in a couple of more generations, say. But lots of us do have good stories to tell. E.g., three of my women friends often get together for "a girly lunch". When I came out, they started including me. So I would say they're treating me like any other woman. When you're being included in a girly lunch, that's quite significant.
Also, I'm a member of a book club which is all women. Not that men are excluded. They just don't show up. But all the members are perfectly OK with me. As when one of them, saying good-bye to me and another woman at the end of one meeting, said, "See you, girls!"
And you might note that in places such as Ireland where legislation is being passed or considered that will recognize transgender rights, the provision always is that transpeople will be recognized as "male" or "female"--not as "transgender" or "other".
What I'm saying is that in ways (small ways perhaps) we transpeople are already being accepted as men and women. We can't predict the future of course, but the signs are already there that cispeople may eventually come to accept us simply as another variety of men and women.
