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<p>Transgender Texan Ashley Smith just trolled Texas governor Greg Abbott in a the classiest way possibly.</p><p>On Friday, the republican governor, who has been pushing for an <a href="http://theweek.com/speedreads/712658/texas-gov-greg-abbott-quietly-elegantly-trolled-by-transgender-woman">anti-transgender &quot;bathroom bill&quot;</a> in private sessions, announced that he would be running for a second term in a speech in San Antonio. After he was done, he snapped this seemingly innocuous picture with his constituent, Ashley Smith, a self-proclaimed &quot;architect, trans-woman, activist &amp; snowflake.&quot;</p><oembed>https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1896895687226151&amp;set=p.1896895687226151&amp;type=3</oembed><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Notice anything weird about the photo? There really isn&#39;t! That&#39;s the point.</p><p>Smith wanted to highlight the irony that if Abbot couldn&#39;t tell that Smith was trans when she was standing mere inches from him, he should not be telling trans people which bathroom to use.</p><p>&quot;Once I had the photo, I was eager to get on social media just because I wanted to make a point,&quot; she told the <a href="http://www.chron.com/"><em>The Houston Chronicle</em></a>. &quot;We&#39;re about 1-in-300 people, we&#39;re all over the place, we&#39;re your friends and your neighbors. Some of us are not immediately obvious as trans. And the idea that you are going to be able to enforce a bathroom bill, I mean the enforceability is just not there.&quot;</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="giphy" data-attribution-url="" height="750" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/giphy-qwp7QJ.gif" width="750" /></div><div class="image-attribution">giphy</div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Smith uploaded the picture onto Facebook with the caption &quot;How will the Potty Police know I&#39;m transgender if the Governor doesn&#39;t?&quot; She also added the hashtag #BATHROOMBUDDY over the photograph.</p><p>&quot;I hope the photo I took with the governor illustrates the ridiculousness of passing a bathroom bill and lets more people see that transgender folks are just ordinary people who live and work among everyone else in our community,&quot; she says. &quot;The state legislature should focus their attention on issues that matter to Texans, such as lowering our property taxes and fixing school finance.&quot;</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

This trans-woman just masterfully trolled the Texas governor over 'bathroom bill.'

Transgender Texan Ashley Smith just trolled Texas governor Greg Abbott in a the classiest way possibly.On Friday, the republican governor, who has been pushing for an anti-transgender &quot;bathroom bill&quot; in private sessions, announced that he would be running for a second term in a speech in San Antonio. After he was done, he snapped this seemingly innocuous picture with his constituent, Ashley Smith, a self-proclaimed &quot;architect, trans-woman, activist &amp; snowflake.&quot;https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1896895687226151&amp;set=p.1896895687226151&amp;type=3Notice anything weird about the photo? There really isn&#39;t! That&#39;s the point.Smith wanted to highlight the irony that if Abbot couldn&#39;t tell that Smith was trans when she was standing mere inches from him, he should not be telling trans people which bathroom to use.&quot;Once I had the photo, I was eager to get on social media just because I wanted to make a point,&quot; she told the The Houston Chronicle. &quot;We&#39;re about 1-in-300 people, we&#39;re all over the place, we&#39;re your friends and your neighbors. Some of us are not immediately obvious as trans. And the idea that you are going to be able to enforce a bathroom bill, I mean the enforceability is just not there.&quot;giphySmith uploaded the picture onto Facebook with the caption &quot;How will the Potty Police know I&#39;m transgender if the Governor doesn&#39;t?&quot; She also added the hashtag #BATHROOMBUDDY over the photograph.&quot;I hope the photo I took with the governor illustrates the ridiculousness of passing a bathroom bill and lets more people see that transgender folks are just ordinary people who live and work among everyone else in our community,&quot; she says. &quot;The state legislature should focus their attention on issues that matter to Texans, such as lowering our property taxes and fixing school finance.&quot;

This transgender woman just masterfully trolled a Texas governor.