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[–]MarkTwainiac 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, trans people today see themselves as deserving more rights than gay people in the 70s, and women today (and forever). But the issue in this anecdote wasn't rights, it was strategies for dealing with family and interpersonal relationships. Etiquette, methods of introduction, what info to reveal and what not to reveal. These are issues not of legal rights but of social mores and customs. In a word, manners.