Their laughter cut me to the bone.

Its very interesting to read through the experiences of a person who "doesn't belong"
In the novel Stone Butch Blues, Feinberg uses the character Jesse Goldberg to depict different events that highlight the challenges of a transgendered individual in todays world.
When we discussed the issue of bathrooms in class it was a bit different for me because it wasn't in first person and I couldn't relate. After reading through his/her experience, I couldn't help but compare it to my growing up as an artist in a third world country. I can't remember the number of times when I would have to deny my interest in art. It simply wasn't taken seriously. The more people ridiculed and bashed the idea of taking art seriously, the more I would have to fit in to some other career interest to make sure people viewed me as normal. There was no bathroom allotted to me, and after all the psychological abuse I had taken, I had to fit into a space that I wasn't comfortable in and even started to ridicule my fellow artists.
"It changes you, what they do to you in here, the shit you take everyday in the street, it changes you" What carrie says after her attack from the police relates to the bathroom incident as well.
When Jesse Goldberg walks into the bathroom and the two women are laughing at her, asking what she is, there is a sense of fear and uncertainty. "Their laughter cut me to the bone." It is something that she had experienced when she was young and now as an adult. Knowing what kind of brutal acts are directed towards people like hir, it must have been very psychologically damaging for the women to laugh and taunt hir in an area where s/he was cornered and didn't feel safe to begin with. But since they don't have to deal with it, they dont put it into consideration. Just like white privilege, I guess we can call this gender privilege. The transgender community is going through unthinkable mental and physical abuse. Its time to be aware and act.