Full Disclosure: Sex, Culture, And Comedy

  Last week Houston voters overwhelmingly defeated an ordinance designed to prevent discrimination against protected classes, including the right for transgender individuals to use the bathroom with which they identify. The Houston Equal Rights Ordinance, or HERO, was defeated by a margin of 2-1. This week we discuss the issue with trans female and Chicago performer Kelly Lauren, as well as LGBT activist, owner of FTM Essentials (NSWF-ish), and proud mother of a trans girl Searah Deysach.   Much of the anti-HERO rhetoric focused on the (false) notion that transgender individuals are likely to attack you in a bathroom, specifically trans women attacking small girls. You can checkout one of their campaign videos below:       We talk about the unquestionable statistics which completely refute this notion, as well as the fact that most people who are transgender want to present very much like the gender with which they identify. This is what led Kelly to work with a photographer in order to depict just how