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[–]one1won 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

OMG. Thank you so much for this post! I cringed and laughed. Well written!

I view you as a wise and brave person to subject yourself to this BEFORE it may become mandatory. Get the shock experience under your belt, so to speak!

Being out of the workforce, myself, I can only hone in on:

there are way more trans people than ever before, and that's because we're more accepting of trans people

Then we need to stop being accepting! Hmmmm

[–]teacherterf[S] 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Thank you! As for "way more trans people", my takeaway from that one along with the next bullet point was "oh, so we're seeing a huge increase of a type of person that has a 41% chance of attempting suicide AND THIS IS A GOOD THING???"

[–]one1won 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I've got to ask, did you squeak, jaw drop, or face plant at any point during this? I would've

[–]teacherterf[S] 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Constantly and repeatedly, but it was Zoom and my camera was off and my mic was muted. Enduring one of these in person will be a challenge.