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I wasn't trying to be a douche. Just tried to find why it resonated with HN and if it was a startup founder that made the blog or something like that. I liked

• DoreenMichele 7y ago
  I'm not someone who flagged your comment and I wasn't accusing you of being a douche. I'm not a founder. I am a long time member who has been here more than a decade and I'm probably best known as a subject matter expert on homelessness. This is one of my blogs that is intended to be a resource for trying to address the issue of homelessness because the LGBTQ community is at very high risk of homelessness. Between my old handle and this one, I have more than 50k karma, so some people recognize my name and sometimes they check out my posts for that reason. But with 5 million visitors a month to HN, plenty of people have no idea whatsoever who I am. It's not really a touching story. If you read through the blog, I was targeted by someone who treated me horribly. This person just so happens to be trans and I learned a lot about trans issues in the course of knowing her, but I got badly burned. "Grist for the mill" and all that. I do my best to separate my anger at how this specific individual mistreated me from what I learned about trans issues because of them and I try to use that knowledge to provide resources for a high risk population because it's clear to me that if you want to reduce homelessness, you need to address the needs of the LGBTQ community.