I am far too polite for that. I’m the sort that stands off to the side of the sidewalk when a bunch of people are walking in the opposite direction, and in a line abreast, and I wait patiently for them to go past. I’m the kind of person that does a quick bow when someone holds the door for me. I’m the kind of person who takes as little space as possible, and tries to be mindful of the harmony needed for society to move along.

To give Mox credit in exorbitant luxury in bathrooms, there is a crystal chandelier over the sink, and no I’m not joking.

I don’t know, cis people are weird about that sort of thing. I just exist here.

Just one restroom. Stalls with urinals, stalls with toilets, floor to ceiling doors on all of them, and a communal sink area. Mox Boarding House has my perfect public restroom. Exactly like that.

I didn’t grow up speaking English and only learned it in my teenage years. It makes me doubt whether my skills with three decades of English are proficient or not.

でも、時々英語は本当に分かりにくい。しょうがない、ね？

Never mind, found a source that showed that sometimes cisgender people will write “CIS” in all capital letters to mean “comfortable in skin.”

Which is really weird, but it tracks.

I understand the meaning of it when it’s written in lowercase. I mean, I’m trans. Came out a decade and a half ago.

When I see it written in all capital letters, it’s an acronym, and I have no idea what that acronym means.

Yeah, but my comment said that I understood that, but I was wondering when it became an acronym, and what does that acronym mean.

Bravery doesn’t mean much when I just wanna exist without the federal government throwing its full weight against me, while riling up lone wolves and poisoning any sort of discussion and thought process among the public.

I do have a question though, when did cis become an acronym, and what does it stand for now? When I was learning English, I had learned that it was a Latin root, to imply “on the same side of”, like “cisisochemic” or “cisatlantic,” and is the opposite of trans, or “on the opposite side of.”

At some point in the last few years, I’ve been seeing it capitalized in places, and I wonder why the switch? Unfortunately, when I look it up, I get a mismatched set of AI slop results and generated pages that say nothing coherent.

In Oregon, today, in a performing theater of all places, as I entered the vestibule of the women’s restroom, some old lady said “are you sure this is the men’s room? Wanna go check the sign once again?”

So that fucked with my whole day.

I thought I looked good, looked stylish. 13 years of HRT is not enough apparently.

There’s pictures of me on my userinfo page.

Honestly, as a trans woman that doesn’t pass, there’s fewer than ten states where I feel comfortable existing.

I am a leftist in thought, inspiration, and action, and my short term goals include the woodchipping of the entire Heritage Foundation, bunch of absolute ghouls they are;

but I have recently been humbled and realized I know *jack shit* about geopolitics and international history. That’s what I’m reading. Books, theory, education.

I’m still here, just not participating.

I can see that I’m not as well-read on the state of affairs as everyone else, and also I just noticed that I’m on .ml.

My apologies. I’ll remove myself from this instance until I am less ignorant about the world I live in.

Now that the Red Scare is largely over, the United States is being dismantled by a compromised president controlled by Russia in the 21st century.

Born too early to see the US being dismantled by Russia, born too late to see the US being dismantled by Russia, born just in time to see the US being dismantled by Russia.

I am ignorant of modern geopolitics. Have no pity for me. I will go learn.

My people are once again a political scapegoat.

Me too. Except not quietly.

Ricky Gervais is a transphobic hack.

So now even how I carry my passport isn’t enough, because on my passport I got in the Biden Administration, it says F (which is properly reflective of my gender), my biological sex as nature called it is I, and what the Trump Administration insists it to be is M.

I love being screwed retroactively for decisions I was allowed to make which benefitted me! It is my most favorite thing, to be punished for doing the right thing in the past.

Carrying my passport is now actually a marker that ICE should detain me, but not carrying my passport is also a marker that ICE should detain me!