I’m not going to spend time on the other stuff (which I also feel lacks perspective and nuance) but your definition of transgender couldn’t be more off. There’s

I’m not going to spend time on the other stuff (which I also feel lacks perspective and nuance) but your definition of transgender couldn’t be more off. There’s nothing sexual about being transgender - it’s purely about being become the gender you mentally feel you are. You can be trans straight, gay, and everything in between. Calling them perverts is quite ignorant - I don’t even know these days where it could even be accurately applied or what it should mean. Usually that’s a word used by people who just hate another group because they don’t understand and certainly don’t accept someone who wants to live or act differently than they do. Ironically it is an affront to conservatives who should be inclined to let people be free to live however they want. By saying they’re perverts obsessed with sex, I think that’s more accurately placed upon those who look down on transgendered people, and only view it in sexual terms because they simply don’t understand. Side note - I wish the T in GLBT was actually separated out. Gender and sexuality are completely orthogonal - something that I as a gay man only have recently really understood in talking to people who recently transitioned.