Quote Originally Posted by Vensaval View Post
Here's the unfortunate reality in regards to that, and it genuinely is a shame.

Respect is earned. Not simply given. There's been countless occurrences of people in that community committing heinous acts against others for generally innocuous things over the past decade or so. As well as the general attitude portrayed by the selfsame people towards the general populace being incredibly arrogant, entitled, vitriolic, and self-righteous.

All while insisting they are the victims. No matter the circumstance.

Whatever good will and respect there was ten-odd years ago has greatly diminished because of this. People are fed up with it. As hard it may be to hear, the majority of the blame is on that community. Not as a whole, of course. Which should go without saying. However, this attitude I allude to is prevalent everywhere you look online. These forums included.

Believe it or not, that's the truth of it.
Trans people aren't a community, they are literally just people. Some random trans person you've never met before has literally nothing to do with nor is responsible some other random trans person being an asshole to you. That's a crazy to think, honestly, and makes exactly 0 logical sense.