So while having a conversation with someone, a trucker type, who was speaking about someone else’s racism, he openly dropped the following, “My uncle married a transgender lady out in BC…” This was the second time someone had mentioned they had family married to transgender women. I think back and in all my years, I cannot remember ever having heard such a thing. Not that there is anything wrong about marrying someone Trans. No, it is has everything right to it. People are coming out of the closet to say; “Hey this is part of my family and it is normal and fine with me.”

Earlier this year, voters in Virginia elected the state’s first openly transgender candidate to the Virginia House of Delegates. Danica Roem unseated incumbent delegate Bob Marshall who was responsible for the Bathroom bill to force Tran people to the bathroom of their birth.

On HBO, Jeffrey Tambor plays Maura Pfefferman, a transgender women and parent on the show Transparent.

A model, also transgender, Ines Rau, was featured as Playboy’s playmate of the month, the first transgender to do so.

There are many more examples of what is rapidly becoming mainstream, accepted even. Transgender people are slowly being welcomed into society as a natural part of our community. I place all the praise in the world on North Carolina’s ‘Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act’ commonly known as House Bill 2, in which people may only use restrooms that correspond to the sex on their birth certificates and not the sex they have transitions into.

Talk about unintended consequences. What bigotry has wrought, seeking to further marginalize people who were already living far, far, beyond the pale, has resulted in an acceleration of open armed accepted into mainstream as fully embraced and wanted part of humanity. They have cause the reaction of people trying to understand just what is this thing they are trying to prevent. Who should not be allowed into bathrooms and for what reason? Well they passed this into law and we the people investigated. Look at what resulted can now be seen as transgender are just another colour in our world of rainbows.