Asklemmy

That sounds tough. I certainly have had times that I questioned my gender but I am comfortable being a CIS white male. I can't change how I feel. Equally though, I recognize that people don't feel comfortable with what they were born with. I also understand that the line between male and female, biologically, is more of a spectrum. We all started as female. Men have emotional periods every month. There is clearly not a binary state between male and female. It's not cut and dry as that. So I fully support LGBTQIA+. In turn, I hope they fully support me being who I am.

That said, I have run into the exact same types of people. People who call me an asshole just because of who I am. I try to point out the hypocrisy and they do not care. That said, fuck'em. I still support LGBTQIA+ because of 2 reasons. 1) Very simply one person does not dictate the whole community. 2) I'm not a hypocrite. I want them to support my right to live how I feel is normal for me and I am going to do the damnest that they get the same.

Realistically though, those people are just angry and upset because CIS white males are the people who attack them the most. Our human instincts are that if some type of person keeps trying to kill you or threaten you, you generalize that all those types of people are bad. That I totally understand. It's really not their fault even that they've generalized me as a threat to them. It's their survival instincts and the shittiness of the world we live in. The best I can do is be a point for them to look at and say "Yeah, I guess not all of those types of people are trashy assholes."

So I don't think that's really the same left-wing extremism that I was originally talking about. There are left-wing communities like Linux, Open Source Software, Unionization, and Communism. Whereas if you aren't 100% you might as well be -100%. If you have a slight disagreement on how the system should be ideally then you are the absolute enemy. Zero middle ground.