OP-ED: "Soon I'll occupy the men's room stall next to you. Thank the Ohio Legislature. "

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8. They're so worried about what's in other people's underwear, it makes you wonder why. Why is that?

Because I personally have no interest in someone else's gender. I take them as they present. Where I used to work, there was one student that everyone said was actually a man who just dressed like a woman. I didn't care, she looked okay to me. She obviously was nervous about this, because she never spoke to anyone. I used to talk to her during the course of my duties (issuing parking permits, doing transcript requests and other things), though she never answered me back but once, when I got a quiet, almost silent, "thank you".

I interacted with all kinds of students, some gay, some in between or trying to live their best self. They liked to talk to me because I didn't judge. I accepted them as they were, or were working to be. Most of them were funny, almost hilarious with their sense of humor. There were some black students who liked to stop by my desk and talk in what used to be called "jive", I think. It was slang, which I mostly didn't understand, but we always got a good laugh out of it.

I mean, who am I to judge? I don't live their lives, I can only watch and help as I can. I can only be a human being, and treat others the way I want to be treated. Which, if I remember correctly, is the basic teachings of the man these "Christians" claim to follow. Gotta love that warrior Jesus cult!