My Last Time in a Swimming Pool in Florida

Florida has made so many laws against me, I don’t suppose I can go there anymore

My own photo of the Florida pool. I put the photo on Pixabay for you to use too.

A couple months ago, my husband and I stopped in Florida for a couple days, en route to somewhere else. We were well aware of the rapid political changes in the state. When I took this selfie in the hotel swimming pool, I thought it might be the last time I set foot in Florida. I was happy to be on vacation, but I was also a little sad.

Tucker Lieberman, courtesy himself.

Caveat

When trans men say we don’t belong in women’s bathrooms, we can—depending on how we phrase it—encounter a couple pitfalls.

First, the statement can amount to bragging (in various decibels of rude) about how well we individually “pass” as men, and, in turn, this information is (in various club-thuddings of weaponization) often used to justify who is and isn’t allowed to have their gender. These comments often fail to consider others’ range of experiences in how the world genders them, for example, due to their color, body size, age, or ability, or when they began their gender transition, or what transition steps they wanted, could financially afford, or…