Jim didn't even swallow his swig of Miller Lite before jumping in again.
"I mean, I don't have a problem if a man wants to dress like a woman, but he should just keep that to himself," he said, tilting back on the hind legs of his bar stool. "Don't go flaunting it around. Nobody wants to see that."
Martin, his friend, thought for a moment before speaking.
"But don't you think they have a right to dress how they want and act how they want?"
"And don't I have a right to not be bothered by it?" Jim said. He leaned forward a bit. "Look I know we've been wrong before. I saw a TV special about how our great-great-great-grandpas were scared of the Irish and the Chinese coming over to steal their jobs, and that was just silly. And we shouldn't have put all the Japanese people in camps during WWII. And of course I'm not racist or anything and I'm all for the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King Jr. and everything those Blacks did in the 60s. And it was wrong to blame the gays for AIDS. And I met a few of them Muslims a few years ago and they were good folks. But the trans people...this time is different."
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