It really depends on where you live, it's common to see trans people in the inner suburbs and there seems to be lot of younger gay folk there too.
I live in the outer East and see the same guys in frocks at the big shopping centre or on the bus.
I don't know what the changing room situation is like, last time I was at KMart they were clearly marked Men and Women.
I'm in a few Aussie GC/Terf groups on Facebook and there are a lot of women who share my views, no men in women's sports, no men in women's prisons etc.
Most places like doctors offices, hospital and food bank/homeless charities display a poster declaring that LGBTQ are welcome and we should all be tolerant, blah blah. Some gender neutral toilets but I think mostly in the city.
I'm not sure what I'd do if I saw a loon in the Ladies, I'd probably complain to management if anything.
Personally Im not too worried by seeing anyone playing dress up out and about. Although the person in a vibrant untidy dress and disreputable scraggy beard in the Post office queue did have me raise a mental eyebrow!
What got me was the trans woman in the communal ladies changing room at the gym/swimming pool. And the confused ladies not quite sure what to say! This was before covid, so years ago, at the time, i was bewildered, now Id go straight to management to complain!
Im very worried also about the reported number of trans children in British schools. I cant quite see how children / adolescents on any level, in the middle of questioning their places in the world and their identity as an individual, can be expected to 'know' exactly what gender they want to be? Especially when gender is such an open ended term. A girl shouldnt have to feel as if she has to transition if she isnt traditionally girly and doesnt like make up or boys. Wheres the support and discussion to help them?
you then get these trans men, who were once girls, who are often extremely short, and who dont look or sound remotely male, or remotely masculine, see Ellen Page. so what's the point? Or trans women, who were once men, who rarely look or sound or behave remotely female. To me this makes no sense.
And the mis use of language. What in heavens name is or was a lady
fool? ( this idea seems to be much less prevalent than a few years ago, so hopefully this phrase is on the wane? ) And in reports, of someone who murdered his mother, you get a report about how 'they' murdered their mother, and I had to read the report 3 or 4 times to work out, who else was involved in the murder as well as the son, because to me 'they' is a plural. Only to realise that it was just one person, the son.
Or the idea of chest feeding? or birthing parent! What is so wrong with a word like mother? which actually is pretty similar as a word and concept world wide?
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