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Video Flips the Script on the Ridiculous Questions Cis People Ask Trans People All the Time

"Was it difficult to come out to your parents as cisgender?"

Going to be frank here: as a trans woman, the questions at the root of this funny video are questions I deal with all the futzing time. So it’s funny (and incredibly fulfilling) to hear those questions turned on their ears and fired right back at people. Think about it. How ridiculous do these questions sound? Pretty ridiculous, right? So why do people keep asking them?

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Anyway, check out the video. It’s funny, and it’s perfectly toned. And the next time you find you’re dying to figure out someone else’s gender by asking them about their genitals, do them (and all of us) a favor: don’t.

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Jessica Lachenal is a writer who doesn’t talk about herself a lot, so she isn’t quite sure how biographical info panels should work. But here we go anyway. She's the Weekend Editor for The Mary Sue, a Contributing Writer for The Bold Italic (thebolditalic.com), and a Staff Writer for Spinning Platters (spinningplatters.com). She's also been featured in Model View Culture and Frontiers LA magazine, and on Autostraddle. She hopes this has been as awkward for you as it has been for her.

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