Me and two of my trans friends went out for dinner at a local Mexican restaurant. (Manny's Uptown - really good Mexican food!) The staff there is really nice to us (I am a good tipper), and it's in a mostly accepting part of town. So one of the waitresses comes over to the table, and with a very concerned look on her face, and points out that two women in a table behind us were laughing at us and taking photos of us on their cell phone's.
Hilarious - I get the joke - we're something to share on instagram or twitter: "Trannies at Manny's." Har dee har har.
We get this from time to time at various places - it's happened at Walmart and a couple of other places as well.
My friends wanted to go say something to these women, but I told them not to. Really, what can be gained by that? They'd just draw even more attention, and it would disrupt the meals of others at the restaurant who weren't being jerks. We were all pretty angry about it though.
I dunno, I've been in transition for 11 months now, so I've had enough incidents like this so that it doesn't really bother me that much anymore. (People staring at me I don't even notice now.) The only thing that really bothers me about it is that I won't bother talking to my family about it. They really don't believe stuff like this happens. I've tried telling them before. They don't get it. They try to explain it away, or deny it. That lack of understanding frustrates me way more than the event itself, at this point.
I know most of us have had stuff like this happen from time to time. Anyone have any especially memorable microagressions? What'd you do about it at the time, if anything?