"Just because something is important to someone else doesn't mean I have to give a fuck about it. For example, I am not going to be a vegan just because other p

"Just because something is important to someone else doesn't mean I have to give a fuck about it. For example, I am not going to be a vegan just because other people think it's bad to eat meat." You're not being asked to do anything other than offer respect to a fellow human being. You're certainly not being asked to change your eating habits. No one is choosing to make themselves a pariah. In fact it's your insistence on singling out a transgendered person as 'other' which is creating outcast status. The fact that so many people upvoted your comment, made me feel that expressing a response was all the more needed. What you're choosing to do, is belittle someone's right to express themselves in an honest manner. The fact that you choose to do so with so much vitriol and lack of empathy, only confirms I chose the correct term to identify you with.