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In an attempt to do my "Patriotic Chore," I volunteer to work the polls on election day as much as possible - well actually I get paid as temporary help. Here in CA, "Election Day" was last Tuesday, March 5th, and ran for 11 days.
The election board in my area consisted of 6 workers, and I had no advance notice who they were until I arrived to work the polls. When we all met on the first day, to my surprise one of the workers was a Trans Gal. When I first saw her I thought she was a crossdresser, but in short order I saw that she was trans.
I thought that this was going to be an interesting 11 days. And I was hoping to maybe talk with her if/when we had some quiet time about issues of crossdressing and transitioning.
We never got the time to "talk," but during the 11 days that me and the other workers spent together, all of us got along wonderfully. Never was any mention made of her appearance, dress, preference - she was just another gal working the polls. In fact, she dressed very stylish, better than the other women who were assigned. I also noticed that voters who came into the center also had no reaction to her appearance, voice or mannerisms. I thought that was very nice to see the general public so accepting.
I was pleasantly surprised that all went well, I had suspected that someone, sometime would make an inappropriate comment or judgement call. That never happened.
I found the 11 day experience with her refreshing and educational. I never got the opportunity to talk to her about her "experience," and actually it would not have been appropriate in that setting anyway.
When we departed on the last day, I wished her and all the others well. It was very nice to see her accepted and treated as a human being.
Staci....
Being in plain site with no undue attention is wonderful. Thank you for witnessing and reporting back to us such an uneventful election. I hope no j**ks were elected!
So nice to hear your story Staci. Thanks for taking the time to write about it.
Emily
Shame you had no time to chat but it was good you obviously kept an envious eye on her and everything went well. You never mentioned if you felt the desire to go along dressed. No matter though it is lovely to read such refreshing experiences.
Here in the U.K. I have dressed to vote and no one batted an eyelid as I went through the process. In the last year the law changed and you had to provide I.D. which meant drivers licence or passport which is my male name. Fate gave me hand to overcome that as that year senior citizenship had come along and a bus pass with my initials and surname, no title, with a picture of me as female and is acceptable as I.D !