Rant incoming.

Today a couple of trans women in a Discord server – not a trans server – really pissed me off. I expressed my opinion that being transgender has a physical cause: genetics, endocrine anomalies, whatever. There is some limited research pointing in this direction, but nothing conclusive, and I said as much. My opinion is based on non-conclusive studies and my own experience of my self.

So I got attacked for that.

One person called me an “apologist” meaning that I side with the Pick Me’s who try to present themselves as the “good” trans people who it’s OK for society to accept, unlike those loud, pushy “bad” trans people who gasp might not even want surgery! Another person accused me of “sloganeering” because my wording reminded her of the phrase “born this way” that was popular a while back. I do not understand people like them. I have an opinion, and I admit it’s an opinion, and I don’t try to push it on others, and yet I get accused of betraying all trans people because of it. That is BS. This kind of infighting needs to stop! It doesn’t help the community in any way shape or form.

And to think they accused me of this. In 2023 I took off from work 5 times to go to the Texas capitol to testify against bad legislation. I’d be there this year too if I wasn’t in the process of moving out of state. Last week I wasn’t even in the state at all, so I couldn’t testify anyway.

Most of my days are literally just spent talking with other trans people in 4 different Discord servers to try and be there for people when they need help. I’ve stayed up past midnight talking to people who were feeling suicidal more than once.

But somehow, I’m the bad guy because I think being trans has a physical cause in the brain and the way it develops are we grow.

Well screw that noise.

I’m not ashamed of who I am, and I won’t apologize for it, either to transphobes or to politically correct armchair activists who talk a lot but never do anything.

End of rant.