A local fundraiser for the trans community is just the ticket for me

Published April 27, 2025 

Please put good thoughts into the cosmos for me. I rarely go anywhere, but now I have an event I’d like to attend if my mental and physical health will cooperate.

I’m still on medical leave from work, sleeping off and on at least half of every day, and when I woke up before dawn today I saw a story about a local fundraiser for the trans community.

Kiggins Theatre is a cool place I first heard about when I was a copy editor for the local paper. You may remember it for its fun social media posts with movie quotes on its marquee during the early days of the pandemic. I bought popcorn there when I could to support a local business struggling to stay open.

I’m so happy to have the chance to go to Queer Night Out. It’s so close I could bunny-hop a few times and be there, but I’m probably going to have to hail a ride. I’m not doing well. But I want to make sure there’s at least one transgender person in the audience. I’ll also stop by the bookstore whose brainchild it is and thank them.

My plan is to crowdfund the most expensive ticket possible to help raise money for a good cause. If you’d like to participate, please check out my Tip Jar link below. After a busy week of appointments and other expenses, I can still afford a $25 ticket, but I’d like to give a boost to the local organizations who will benefit.

A screenshot of an online ticketing page shows tickets for this fundraiser at a minimum of $25 and a platinum max of $500.

A sincere thank you for anything you can do.

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Here’s one you shouldn’t skip. Séamas O’Reilly consistently writes winners, and I’ve shared some of them before. This one’s a must-read.

But I also wonder why this hypothetical predator would bother pretending to be trans. They could just pretend to be me; the sheepish dad minding an unseen child. Or a janitor, a plumber, or a toilet attendant. All such thought experiments are null and void, of course, when one considers that the legal ability for trans women to use female toilets has been in place for a decade without seeing any examples of such behaviour at all.

We love it when a cisgender person gets it and says what needs to be said.

This “moral panic,” this “culture war” nonsense, is a manufactured crisis. It’s easier to blame us for society’s actual problems than to try to fix them. The people in power now have no idea how to lead. We’re an easy target for them to shift the focus away from that fact.

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