I have a few but this is the first one that comes to mind. I was visiting New Zealand. I was in a grocery store and asked where the bathroom was. I was pointed in a general direction and headed to the door I calculated as the correct one. When I opened it there was kind of a foyer before the bathroom proper. A woman was coming out. I’m male so I stopped and asked if I was in the wrong bathroom. She stopped and looked around the bathroom to figure it out for a few seconds and finally just sort of gave up and said, “oh, who cares.”
Coming from a country (US) that was actively trying to dictate where trans people could or couldn’t pee, I sort of loved her in that moment for cutting through the bullshit.
I have a few but this is the first one that comes to mind. I was visiting New Zealand. I was in a grocery store and asked where the bathroom was. I was pointed in a general direction and headed to the door I calculated as the correct one. When I opened it there was kind of a foyer before the bathroom proper. A woman was coming out. I’m male so I stopped and asked if I was in the wrong bathroom. She stopped and looked around the bathroom to figure it out for a few seconds and finally just sort of gave up and said, “oh, who cares.”
Coming from a country (US) that was actively trying to dictate where trans people could or couldn’t pee, I sort of loved her in that moment for cutting through the bullshit.