Summary

The author describes their experience of hiding their trans identity while hosting a MAGA-supporting guest who displays racist and elitist behavior during her visit to Mexico.

Abstract

In a personal journal entry, the author recounts the second day of hosting a guest who is a supporter of the MAGA movement. The guest's disdain for Mexico is evident through her reactions to local culture, food, and people, which the author finds challenging to endure. Despite the guest's negative attitude, the author finds some relief in purchasing CBD oil. The guest's ostentatious appearance and behavior contrast sharply with the author's and their wife's more conservative and unassuming lifestyle. The author also reflects on the difficulty of maintaining relationships with individuals who hold extreme and offensive views, having had to cut ties with a childhood friend for similar reasons. The day ends with the prospect of more discomfort as they prepare to take the guest to a local restaurant where they anticipate further complaints.

Opinions

The guest's reaction to Mexico is perceived as racist and elitist, particularly her disgust towards local food and people.
The author is critical of the guest's MAGA affiliation and the associated ideologies.
The author expresses a sense of irony and disbelief at the guest's interest in past life therapy and hypnosis, suggesting a comparison to the perceived brainwashing of the US government.
The author is relieved and pleased to have access to CBD oil, which provides a positive contrast to the otherwise challenging situation.
The author values their friendship with their one and only friend at the apartment complex, despite the guest's apparent disapproval based on the friend's dark skin.
The author has a clear stance against racism and sexism, as evidenced by their decision to end a long-standing friendship due to such views.
The author anticipates the guest's complaints about the local restaurant with a sense of resigned humor, indicating a coping mechanism for dealing with the guest's negativity.

My Trans Journal: Day 2 of needing to hide myself.

She saw my pierced ears and winced, then she noticed my shaved legs…

Photo by Apostolos Vamvouras on Unsplash

She didn’t say anything about it, but she did have to bring up that in Texas, a man has to present himself in a certain way in order to fit in.

Nuff said.

This woman that is a guest of ours for the week is clearly disgusted by Mexico. She’s given the stinkface look to everywhere we’ve gone, and every place we’ve eaten. She’s constantly complaining about how dirty everything, and everyone is.

Pretty much what you’d expect from a very privileged, white female MAGA member. She just lets the racism fly.

But there’s a bit of a silver lining for me today! We went to a pharmacy and they had some fairly potent CBD for cheap!! Gimme That!!

I’m am writing from the clouds right now. It’s been over 10 months since I’ve had CBD so this is hitting me just right.

The good news is that she seems so disgusted by the real life Mexico, (not the resort Mexico), that she probably won’t want to come and visit us again! I hope that’s true.

There’s a girl that sells food from a cart down the street from our apartment complex, and my wife and I stop and get something from her at least once a month. We love the home cooked Mexican food. It’s so tasty!

This MAGA woman looked at this food cart, and empanadas, like she was about to eat a rat that was cooked in a dirty toilet.

My wife and I are not flashy people, as you have probably already noticed from reading my stories. The last thing we want is to draw too much attention. That’s been part of the issue with me being trans. My wife and I are shy and fairly conservative. Well not MAGA lady! I’d estimate that what she was wearing from head to toe today, cost roughly $4,000.

Yep!

We went to a poor neighborhood, where there’s a health clinic that she needed to check on some medication for travel, and she was fully decked out in expensive name brands with big logos, along with a top of the line Apple watch and diamonds. DIAMONDS! If she would have been kidnapped, I would have helped them shove her in the van.

Good gravy this is only day 2!

I have 7 more days of this to look forward to! YAY!!

When we got back we introduced her to our one and only friend that we’ve made at the apartment complex, and she had her nose so far up in the air that it was clear she didn’t approve of this dark skinned individual.

Seriously. How did my wife become friends with this person???

Why does she continue to remain friends with this person???

I had to ditch and ignore one of my best friends since 2nd grade due to MAGA brainwashing and extreme racism and sexism. I had to cut them out of my life.

Sometimes we have to take the hard road. It hurts, but it’s better than having to endure this kind of behavior.

So in about a hour or so, we’re all going out to a late lunch at a nearby restaurant that my wife and I have been to a couple of times, and we think it’s great!

The food is amazing, the portion size is huge, and the price is very low. I can’t wait to see this woman complain about the wait time, the service, the cleanliness of the establishment, and of course the bathrooms.

I’m surprised that her face isn’t frozen in a constant state of stinkface!

I wonder where she would feel most comfortable? A Trump rally?

So far I’ve been able to keep my thoughts to myself. I have to say that I almost laughed out loud when she brought up interest in going to a past life therapy session back home. But I think she could tell I laughed on the inside.

She brought up hypnosis, and a hypnotist that makes people act like dogs and stuff like that. I remarked that I have a hard time believing that people are so susceptible to such a thing.

But then I followed up with, I guess if hypnosis works that well, and it’s that easy to make people bark like dogs, then it’s no wonder that the US government could so easily brainwash half of the nation.

Oops! I think I lost her there.

I’ll try to do better from now on.