Ooh, lovely! It's a Sexton Beetle! One of our carrion eaters!

It sucks. My hope is that once we're through this tricky time, it'll be a memory, and people can just be.

She was really shaken, yeah. The horrible thing is that it wasn't the first time, and it'll likely happen again.

She is one of a few cis women I know who aren't fem and who are increasingly being attacked in this way. This is why THIS is so dangerous to cis and trans folks. Just. Let. People. Pee.

"No youre fucking not"
"Yes, I really am, and I need to pee".
He's holding her, swinging her about. She tries to just shake free and go in, and he lurches at her. Winds back to punch her, a woman, born as a woman who he probably claims to protect, in the face. Other women now run to protect her.

Thanks, lovely. It is such hard work. I love you all, and I'm proper sick of feeling this way ❤️

Sometimes I think the main 'superpower' in instances like that, is outing absolute dicks. Im sorry that happened.

Its really hard work, isnt it. ❤️

Its not, no. Tricky because you want to be invited but you don't really want to go. I much prefer very small groups of folks, its much easier/nicer.

Yes ❤️. Just last week I made my usual excuse that I didn't have my glasses on, then realised I was wearing them...

And now I'm performing banter, because that's what masking is, performing, am I too loud? Is it ok to carefully take the piss? Was that ok? Tell you what, I'll think about it for five or six days once im home. With people who I've known most of my adult life. It's exhausting.

And because of that, we sometimes become hyper-vigilant. I've caught someone's eyes why were they looking at me? I smiled, was that ok? Am I sitting awkwardly? Did that joke land? What's my face doing, I need to be smiling right now. Am I being too quiet?

"I know we've been friends for 20 years but I don't actually know what you think of me, because I don't have a very strong sense of myself".