GC-leaning. I present feminine I guess? My hair is long, I usually wear jeans or shorts and a T-shirt. I sometimes wear make-up, but not most days. Back before the pandemic I would wear make-up to work if I was going to be in the office all day, if I was going to the field - I wouldn't. Now I only show up in person for field work, so I don't. I work in agriculture, it's a male dominated field but I've only few problems from the men I work with. I'm super thankful that my first few supervisors were really awesome women. I came here mostly after the Rowling letter. I'm a long-time fan of her work and seriously didn't find the letter at all offensive. If people think that was 'hate' then they haven't really encountered any true hate in their lives.

I use preferred names and pronouns because its polite. I don't care what bathroom people use as long as they aren't making a scene (i.e. passing trans women using the women's room quietly) and the bathrooms have single-use locking stalls. I think natal female should have female only spaces. Males don't belong in women's prison or in women's shelters. (i.e. I read thing a while back about a homeless shelter in Canada that tried to house a trans woman who still had intact male anatomy in the same room as two women and when they complained, the women were put back out on the street.) I think gender dysphoria is a real medical problem that should be treated with science-based therapies, unfortunately the fervor of the TRA activist community makes that research hard to accomplish. I'm worried about the growing number of young children going to gender clinics and being given hormones and blockers after very little therapy or investigation. I'm really concerned about the growing trend of censorship on social media that makes having conversations like these hard, which will only make the situation worse - both for women and for trans people.

Trans people deserve to live without fear of harassment and have access to healthcare, jobs, housing, etc, just like everyone else. Access to these things are human rights, but access to women's spaces isn't a human right. I've seriously heard people claim that being able to compete on the sports team that they wanted to was a 'human right'.