Went to get some last minute groceries, wasn’t particularly concerned about passing, but wore a mask because I wanted to give my face a break for the weekend. I get out of my car and some corn fed yokel 14 year olds run past me while loudly have a conversation about ‘what is it?!’. They go back and forth on if I’m a girl or boy, I can’t remember the exact details of the conversation because the girl in the group answered the two boys with something that shut my brain down. She said “that’s a Democrat”…
I’m still having trouble processing the whole thing.
Definitely something I’ve noticed. A lot of homophobia being used by highschoolers, followed by “just messing around, I don’t really have a problem with people being gay”, followed by either insisting they aren’t gay or jokes by others about them being gay. Was a bit surprised transphobia seemed less common than homophobia in those groups. Like, I don’t remember hearing any overt homophobia when I was in grade-school (just “no homo” type comments). But maybe people just kept quiet with those jokes around me?
I don’t know when you went to grade school, but trans (and hence transphobia) wasn’t invented until 2022 by Kamal sHarrias (PBUH)