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PoindexterOglethorpe

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2. Nice.
Wed Sep 15, 2021, 04:31 AM
Sep 2021

I will admit to being a (as I am inclined to say) a boringly heterosexual female. I will also say that I don't full understand trans people, but I want to hasten to add that my life experience has not been connected to such things as transgender. I'm on the old side, 73. Some 50 or more years ago I was an airline employee at DCA, Washington National Airport. Many (not all, but many) of the men I worked with were gay. In the early years they were not at all open to their sexuality.

There are aspects of being transgender I don't understand, and I know it's because it's outside my personal experience. In my own personal life I know one trans gender person. It's highly possible I actually know others, but have no idea they are trans.

I have various friends who have children who are trans, and I'm in a certain amount of awe. My own two sons are firmly heterosexual. Which means I have not dealt with such things as a trans child.
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Religious freedom is expensive lol jpak Sep 2021 #1
At a State University? Dean's religious beliefs ruled? A State University? Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2021 #3
Nice. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2021 #2
Theocratic Blunder Across-the-Desk Sep 2021 #4
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