this probably won't win me any popularity awards on this site but oh well... but what rights are we talking about anyway? Are we arrested if we go out dressed? incarcerated? are we not allowed to vote? Are we not counted in the census?
Is there at times unfairness? Absolutely. But those unfair situations which the TG community finds themselves in is not a group all by itself. It's life and it's the human condition. Ask the 5'4" bald guy how fair life is. I don't think he asked for his plight in life anymore than anyone else, and don't think he hasn't had to fight a lot harder for anything he has attained in life either. Granted, society may have more sympathy toward him than of CDers, but in reality, they are not all that much more fair toward the short bald guy.
As for public restrooms... if dressed, and unless we are 100% undetectable, neither men or women are going to be too comfortable with us going into either bathroom. I say deal with it which ever bathroom you decide to use. That is not a rights issue, that is a society issue. If someone physically assaults us because of how we are dressed, whether it be because of a bathroom we used or any other reason, they do not get a free pass for doing so. THEY still get arrested for assault. We can say because we are TG we should not be discriminated against, and you would be correct. Stand in line, there are a whole lot of people getting discriminated against for any number of reasons, including being horizontally challenged and follicly deficient. It doesn't make it right, but those are society issues, not human rights issues.
