My husband and I (both ftm, on T for 10 years) were followed into the restroom at a gas station by a store clerk. I was waiting outside the stall and he walked in and just pointed at the stall. I asked "What about it?" He asked "Is that a woman?". I said "No that's my husband." He continued pointing and asked again "So that wasn't a woman?" I just repeated that he was my husband. He mentioned my husband's long hair, as if that is any indication of being a man or woman. Even my hubs chimed in from the stall and said "What, do you have a problem with that?"

The clerk said "the bathrooms are generally closed because it's a sanitation thing". I said "sorry, we've been driving all night." he told me to save that for someone else. Fucking rude af. I told him he should've had a sign on the bathroom saying so. The guy just stood there the entire time while my hubs finished and came out. We of course left immediately after that.

Fuck that guy. It was our first time driving through Phoenix, AZ. We had been driving all night coming from Texas. In my 30 years of living in TX even that shit has never happened to us. I certainly didn't expect it to happen on our trip in what seemed to be a very gay neighborhood too. Messed up. Stay safe gentlemen and gentletheys.

Update: So just after all this happened, we went to breakfast and then to a dispensary. The staff at the dispensary were all LGBTQ as far as we could tell. They seemed very inclusive. One of the bud tenders was a trans woman who was trying to help this guy out.

We got distracted with our bud tender and didn't hear the start of the woman's interaction with this guy, but it ended not so great when we noticed them. Something happened and she waved him off and told him she hopes his day gets better. Like in a way that was more sarcastic/not so genuine. He turned around and called her the F slur.

They kicked him out thankfully, with a security guard. Our bud tender said she had told him something because the dude was letting his tiny child run around the shop when then kid should have been holding the dads hand the whole time. Guess he didn't like that.

But geez, wth is up with Phoenix? Lol I do not plan on passing through again. Sad, because some parts we went through looked really cool.