Trans Women are Women

Full stop

My first introduction to trans people was way back in the 1990s. My best friend since the fourth grade had just come out of the closet, and I started accompanying him to gay night clubs in Kansas City. (Yes, Kansas City has a gay scene.) I quickly learned that in gay night clubs, the women’s bathroom is for cis-women, fem-leaning gay dudes, drag queens and trans women, while the men’s bathroom is for more…