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Is that what you do here? You can't have a conversation and just threaten a ban when having a civil conversation? You can see from my post history that I've been nothing but cordial in any discussion I have. If banning someone during a civil conversation is your "win", then go ahead.
Yours is a performative cordiality that serves only to attempt to skirt rules rather than actually adhere to the spirit of them. It has no value whatsoever, and makes up for none of your awful rhetoric.
Calm attitudes do not grant you license to shit on people.
Leaving out the "people" after "trans" sure does dehumanize trans folks and is not what I would call civilized. Not using she/her pronouns when it is pretty obvious that is what she uses is also telling. Tone isn't the only thing that makes civil conversation