Co-worker approached me today and

[MarcieM]

I hate to say it but it does seem like you are.

Nope.

You made a statement that "passing is everything" and in the same point stated that you don't leave your apartment/home CDed.

Passing IS everything. That is precisely why I don't CD in public.

That is basically saying that you discourage CDing unless you are 100% passable or close to it.

Nope. I don't care what anyone does. Just don't whine and complain about it when you are singled out, talked about, and maybe worse. Society is not required to accept your CD-ing.

Until you get real exposure first-hand and not just imagined in your mind or from what you hear on TV, you will never really get to experience real life.

It's not your job or anyone else's here to define what "real life" is.

I'm going out dressed tonight BTW and I will certainly use caution. I'm not hiding behind my front door scared because of some imagined tranny-basher who probably isn't even there. As someone said one time to me, "Either you are in control of your life or someone or something else is." I refuse to let my own fears or others control my life. Britney

If that's what you choose to do, that's great for you. Fear has nothing to do with this issue for me. I simply choose as many many others on this forum do, NOT to CD in public. It's about choices, not fear. But that really has nothing to do with the issue being discussed in this thread.