“There are a bunch of presumptuous questions that transgender people get asked all the time by folks with no business asking about our personal lives. Many of them are based on acceptance of the compulsory gender binary and the belief that the gender we were assigned at birth is our "real" gender. Asking such questions without permission packs the dehumanizing and othering assumption that transgender folk have a responsibility to educate cisgender folk. Being in the position to be educated about someone else's identity is a form of privilege, as those with the most power are not asked to explain their life experience since it has been posited as the norm.”
Well said. I have never once been questioned on what it’s like to be a woman with a vagina who is interested in men, even by my queer friends and family. And the attached video, “2 Hot Transsexuals Finally Give Some Answers!", features Life Coaches Charles and Red sharing fantastic responses to inappropriate questioning by strangers.
For example, “Are you male or female?" results in a confident, “I have a c**t so, that makes me a man.”
