L.I.T., thank you for posting this one. It's important that women that have transitioned are aware that they are not the only ones that have to put up with this BS. The difference is, that they try to reach a point where they "fit in" and the harrassment stops, whereas dykes like me just are who we are. Dykes have been putting up with this kind of nonsense long before anybody was transitioning m2f. Long, long, before!
The woman in the article looks like a younger version of a close friend of mine. I know that when we go out to a str8 place, like say a Shari's restaurant or somesuch, we get a lot of attention. We don't care as long as no one messes with us. But the fact that this happened in NYC in the village is not that surprising to me. I got turned away from the Planet Hollywood in SF about seven years back, because they didn't like the look of my GF at the time. Even the accepting places have their bigots.
C'est la vie, n'est ce pas?
