Wow meara, that is a big change. I bet the newfound opportunities closer to home will more than make up for the lack of travel. Also enjoy the dancing this weekend!

Yes. So...the men WANT trans women who haven't had surgery to be in their bathroom? So confused...

Here's the thing I mentioned before -- can you imagine? The law says that dude needs to use the ladies' room, but every woman freaks out?? [link]

This is a comment on a Tumblr post about the bill passage. I think it's well worth being aware of.

Please notice! The extreme transphobia of this bill isn’t even the *point*, it’s a stalking horse or attention-grabber so people don’t even discuss the real economic meat of the bill: "state law supersedes all local ordinances concerning wages, employment, and public accommodations"

This means a county or city cannot mandate a higher minimun wage – or any other protection for workers – than the state does.

In other words, it’s the GOP strategy in a nutshell: use “culture wars” issues to stir up emotions, so no-one will notice that you’re enriching the rich and oppressing workers.

When we drag them to court to fight them on the civil rights issues, don’t let the labor issues pass by default.

From now on, I'm going to call everyone who supported this bill "Fucky McFuckface."

You guys, one of our besties is a trans man who lived in Kentucky for years and years. And to get your gender on your birth certificate changed in Kentucky, you just need to have a doctor's verification that you're trans (that's a simplistic explanation, but for the purposes of this story, basically accurate). So when our friend transitioned, he got his birth certificate changed. And so his driver's license in Kentucky had him as a guy. Because he is a guy.

He moved to Ohio this year, where he lived before transitioning. When he went to get an Ohio drivers license, because they had him in the system under his birth name as a woman, they flat-out refused to issue him a drivers license that indicated he's a man. He showed them his Kentucky license. He showed them his birth certificate. He threatened to get a lawyer. The BMV called the Ohio registrar, who said (in effect), too fucking bad, tell her that her license has to match what we have on file.

The long and the short of it is that a super sympathetic employee did a hack where they created a whole new record for him with his gender marked as male, and said if it ever gets flagged, they'll just say "Huh, I don't know how that happened."

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. What he goes through on the regular is ungoddamnbelievable.

Crap. I lost my $570 pair of glasses while walking back from lunch. I retraced my steps but couldn't find them.

What do people do when they find glasses? Should I put up signs saying "Lost Glasses"?

I'm wearing my old pair now, which don't have bifocals. Everything looks weird.

Oh shit, tommy.

Sorry, tommyrot. That sucks.

Oh man! I would say yeah, put signs up.

Ugh tommy, what a PITA. Maybe check in with the various stores along your route to see if someone turned them in? Or check on nearby ledges, etc, in case someone picked them up and put them there. I've been known to take keys, etc, out of the gutter and put them on a nearby ledge.

In other words, it’s the GOP strategy in a nutshell: use “culture wars” issues to stir up emotions, so no-one will notice that you’re enriching the rich and oppressing workers.

Yipes, Beverly, that's one nasty trick. I hate people, some people.