Airport Insecurity
OK, here's a story worth reading: a man is traveling to and from a crossdressing event in 2002, with suitcases full of women's clothes. Aiport security picks him for a bag check, and asks if the clothes are his. He says yes. He also makes the mistake of volunteering that he is a schoolteacher. Airport security gets weird, word gets back to his school, and now he's blackballed from teaching.
Transgender rights aren't just about people transitioning on the job, they're also about people having the right to crossdress recreationally without fear of persecution.
Too many of our brothers and sisters have been victimized down through the years, and this is why we give up our free time to work to pass anti-discrimination legislation. If you're someone with more money than time to help with this work, please get off your wallet and help out GEM or NGLTF or NCTE or MTPC.
Check out Tracie Steven's account, and maybe even drop her a line to let her know her story's being heard.
