No, you.
Discussion about a TERF so-called friend
I do NOT approve. I recognize the pattern because I unintentionally was disruptive while extremely ill, but I wasn't rich and famous and highly influential and I worked hard at becoming less drama online.
This site, the one this post is on, posits that being trans is a MEDICAL issue rooted in some kind of sex hormone syndrome. I have written various posts trying to support that point of view.
The so-called "friend" is most likely financially dependent on her husband and she's basically chattel property AKA supporting herself on her back and has few human rights in practical terms as a full-time homemaker. She's most likely scared shitless about being abandoned by the father of her children in a world happy to kick her to the curb.
My experience with a troubled trans youth I named Genevieve was that she was extremely narcissistic and acted like only HER problems mattered, not MINE. My survival issues as a divorced single mom with life threatening medical issues were me being a lazy, whiny little bitch, not REAL problems like hers.
Two people who feel like winning a stupid argument is a survival issue who fundamentally disagree and both parties feel their own survival depends on YOU agreeing with them are extremely unlikely to come to a meeting of the minds.
I run multiple blogs where I write about the problems with heteronormative culture and what everyone needs to be doing differently because the current system is extremely broken. Here is piece about my work with a compendium of pertinent links.
THIS site where this post is focuses on the MEDICAL piece of being trans and NEEDING different sex hormones for one's HEALTH.
I'm well aware that for trans individuals, this is a big problem impairing employment opportunities, putting them at high risk of homelessness and risk of violence.
This world isn't much if any nicer to cis women who get brainwashed into believing you need to be drop dead gorgeous to leave the house at all and then BLAMES you if you get raped "because look how she's dressed!"
Let me suggest that women who are owned as polite prostitutes by "respectable men" have more influence than women trying to support themselves who did successfully support themselves for years as AMAB people following the gendered rules who now expect to be successful career women. It's vastly easier to keep the current status quo alive than to give birth to a new order.
I'm divorced and can't make my life work in spite of education, willingness to work and blah blah blah. The current system is BROKEN and it's BROKEN for EVERYONE, not just trans people.
So step one to "winning this argument with meanie faced TERFs" is recognizing that they are ALSO victims of this CESSPIT of a planet and you pissing on them and screaming about your VICTIM status while having ZERO god-damned sympathy for their situation is to stop being a narcissistic douchebag who only cares about YOU and thinks only you matter and anyone who really cares about you will happily cut their own throats for YOUR benefit while you act like they don't have any problems.