I work in a creative industry too and it is the bane of not only my group but every other company I've spoken to. Every artist and musician I know hates it too.
Trans people go through long processes and professional oversight to arrive at medical intervention in professional settings. Bottom surgery is not taken lightly in the same way that later in life circumcision should be and should be consented to. Ear piercings are largely inconsequential although I strongly disagree with piercing unwilling children.
I hate to dox myself but I'm from Houston, we regularly get bad flooding here and there's a lot of people here including local businesses, police, and private citizens that have trucks for fording floods.
As both a trans woman and a Hispanic person I can tell you, I'm scared too. This IS the fault of trump voters but abstaining or third party voting made it worse. Is it the main cause? The main problem? No, but swallowing a bitter pill would have maybe saved us some of the pain and fear. I live in texas and I refuse to run, I'll stay here and fight bitterly and hold my nose while making incremental change.
I am american, moreso than most realistically. My family has been texan since before even texas was american. I am brown and have a Latin last name, there's a ton of us the same here in texas. In my family the generation before me was the last that inherited spanish from the family and none are fluent (texmex spanglish at best), at least not without schooling.
This is all to say that my drivers license is on me at all times outside of my house. I carry it everywhere, even on my smoke breaks at work, even when I'm washing my car, even when I'm checking my mail.
I shouldn't be living like this, I don't deserve to live like this, my rights as an American citizen say I should be protected against this, but here we are.
You'd be surprised how many of us are normal good people. Disenfranchisement, political fuckery, and disinformation from the powers that be have us fucked up.
"I've never seen it it must not exist"
I work in a creative industry too and it is the bane of not only my group but every other company I've spoken to. Every artist and musician I know hates it too.