Went out for groceries, including a couple 5-gallon water jugs. At the checkout, the lovely person at the register says Hi ma’am, pretends not to notice my 5 o’clock shadow that my makeup has for hours failed to hide, tells me she loves my bracelet, and then tells the young men helping bag items to “help this nice lady with her water”.
I’ll be hanging onto that. She was an angel.
Share your stories too, however seemingly silly or gloriously gargantuan!
Had my first one recently, my partner and I were walking through town and I was wearing a really pretty black dress and an unhoused man came up to us and said “hi ladies” when he asked us for help.
I don’t think it was a technique to get extra money from people but if it was, targeting newly out transfems with affirming language is probably a good strat (if you can find one of us that has any money).