>Sure! If I'm being honest, when I'm upset/angry about this I've started to sometimes apply the label "transphobic" to myself.

Do you know which group is statistically the most transphobic? LGBT people, especially Trans. The why is complicated, often stemming from self-denial. Please note, I'm not calling you trans, but I'm saying it's fine to have feelings like this.

Another big statistic most dont seem to know. The majority of trans who get surgeries... IT people. Why? Nobody knows.

>I have no hatred or negative feelings or lack of sympathy toward anyone, especially not people with feelings about their bodies and identity that are making their lives difficult and causing them to be be badly treated by others.

I would welcome you to respond to situations properly. When you see something like: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-maam This trans person was clearly the upset one. Why? Well what do you think happens when you're recently started taking estrogen? Technically don't know what meds they were on, but HRT is near certain. A common, if not the primary symptom of HRT is that your emotions are going to run hot. You then might react incorrectly to a situation and cause a scene. It's going to happen. This is no different than what women go through during puberty, pms, and pregnancy when hormones go a bit wacky.

>But I know that so many under-40 educated liberals would call me transphobic for my views that I've found myself in anger giving up and saying "fuck it, then I'm transphobic if that's your definition of that term".

What's wrong with being transphobic? What other phobias are wrong to be? I fear needles, aichmophobia, am I wrong about that? You can be transphobic. You can even justly judge people like that above link. The thing you need to understand or think about. Not all Trans people are a problem. The 'pre judgement' or 'prejudice' of all in a group is the problem.

>My position is that I have a definition of "man" and "woman" that I have had since I was a child, and I then became a biologist, and everything I learned confirmed that the traditional definitions of "man" and "woman" were accurate-enough for humans and other mammals to be appropriate terminology, and hence I am not going to change my conception of the human sexes under duress from ideological young progressives.

The subject is greater than xx vs xy chromosomes to be sure. You totally got it right on the last part. Some progressive political folks dont get to unilaterally modify language and even in some cases punish people for not accepting their unilateral change. Yet here we are where major social media platforms have done exactly that.

>My position is also, as I said above, that of course, absolutely every human being gets treated humanely and with respect and sympathy regardless of the situation they are in or their body or internal psychology (unless they have done something evil).

My pronouns are probably they/them but they arent. Unofficially my pronouns are beep/boop. Call me whatever the hell you please. When did we drop the sticks and stones reality here?

Here's the thing, when I was in the air force. Pre-everything. No surgery, no transition. Didnt really admit anything to myself. Some civilian started flipping out on me for nothing. Reports that were completely false. Would tell me I had to use the mens changing room. Basically on my case all the time that I was in the gym. I filed harassment complaint.

It was flipped on me, it was considered illegal for me to be in the airforce because trans werent allowed in the canadian military. That this illegal use of the harassment complaint system was actually harassment of the gym dude. They tried to release me honourably but I fought it. I denied being trans. The chief warrant helped me in the case demanded they prove I was trans. They couldn't and dropped it.

From then... I had a day2day job of delivering mail for the base. After dinner, I then would cycle through cleaning the base, firewatch, etc. For the next ~6 months I literally never got a minute to myself. Clear harassment but it was illegal for me to complain. I had to quit and they accepted without even discussing it with me.

Mind you... canadian military had loads of openly homosexual people. They even at the time had a recruiting quota focusing on hiring more homosexuals and women. It was only a hand full of years later when they legalized trans being in the canadian military.

This is a problem. I hadn't transitioned or did anything. I can only imagine how poorly those who have transitioned would be treated.

> I am not transphobic, but it's accurate to say that I am highly critical of the trans-activist movement (obviously speaking generally -- I'm sure there are many wonderful people who consider themselves part of that movement). So I guess I'm transactivistphobic, in the sense that yes, with the cancel culture, and attacks on feminism and disregard for science, I am prejudiced against trans activism.

The LGBT activists do not represent all LGBT people. The media sure seems to push that this is the case.

All I ask, don't treat all trans people like they are these activists. I would guess that most trans dont agree with these people.