And speaking of cool ... I do generally go thru life trying to make the random people I come into contact with feel better than before they ran into me.
You know, if the occasion arises ... which it often does, cause I chat up random people fairly often 
I mean, why WOULDN'T you. Esp. as a male, who has less to worry about re: a policy of this nature?
I totally inherited and/or learned this trait from my old man, he loved just starting up random, friendly convos with people he doesn't know ... wherever he was. He was an old hippie, and perhaps on a related note, I'm 99% sure was bisexual, even though he never copped to it to me directly, there were enough hints lol.
Anyways in 2015 ... my 'male' officemate (like, literally my officemate ... it was 2-person office) for the previous 7 years one day up and told everyone else at the office ... "I am a woman".
I had NO idea until that day.
Over the next 2 years I spent 8 hours a day with Krista as she slowly transformed away from being Todd.
I had been familiar with men dressing in women's clothing since I was little kid, and always just thought it was like cute and funny. Real awareness (and semblance of real understanding, or so I hope) of actual trans folks (as opposed to trans-dressers) and their various struggles didn't really come until I watched Krista go through it, more or less before my very eyes.
It is NO friggin' joke, trying to change your whole identity and body (as much as you can) to the opposite gender. It's actually pretty scary-sounding in many ways.
I have much more respect now, now that I've witnessed it. Nobody would just do it if they didn't deeply believe they needed to do it ... and that's just the most obvious observation.
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