{About treating trans-people with basic respect}

If I saw you on the street and knew NOTHING about you, I would greet you politely and move on. I would have NO reason whatsoever to do anything more than treat you like a human being. THAT, is 'basic human respect.' To teach kids all of these things is to leave them wondering just How The Hell to respond to each and every person they meet, because now they must live in fear that anything they do or utter might somehow Offend that person.

I care about the content of one's character. NOT their color, NOT their choice of sexuality. I'm never going to see that person again, why does it matter What they are?

Let me put it another way: A person saves a group of people from an accident. They are grateful to him or her. Does it matter in the slightest what that person's sexuality is? NO. It had NO BEARING WHATSOEVER on the situation.

They will never know and don't need to know, what that person feels or believes themselves to be. IT WASN'T IMPORTANT. And the 'basic human respect' in this case will be their gratitude to a total stranger for helping them out. That person being transgender or POC or white doesn't mean a Damned thing- WHAT they did, matters.