Why is it so difficult for those this article is describing to see trans people, especially trans women, in any way other than as, at best, people trying to steal something from them as cis-women or, at worst, as outright enemies? What is it that the people in this acronym so fear about the idea of displaying any empathy to trans women or trans women, or the idea of acknowledging them as people not acting out of malice or hostility, but people simply trying desperately to live their truths in the only way they can live them? if the issue is reproductive choice, why isn’t it enough to simply ask trans people to be pro-choice in exchange as part of being accepted It’s not as if there there’s such a thing as trans women or trans men who want abortion banned or want cis women to lose control over their own health decisions. Why is it so difficult for them to accept that it’s simply not possible for trans men to live as women or trans women to live as men, and that no good could come of trying to force them to do so? It’s hard to understand the thinking of a tiny portion of a “liberation movement” that cannot accept the validity of the liberation struggles of others, and insists instead on seeing those others seeking liberation as either oppressors(as they do when then insist on seeing trans women as men) or traitors(as they do when they insist on seeing trans men as women). Why the rigid heartlessness? Why rage against those who have done nothing to deserve being raged at? Isn’t it always better to err on the side of empathy?