Arguments that the mere concept of transition is somehow going to destroy all women everywhere are as unfounded and contrived as the arguments religious zealots make against gay marriage.
The common theme between those two issues is someone choosing to involve themselves too deeply in the private lives of others. No one is saying that you have to go out and be friends with every trans-guy and respect their desire to be called he/him if you don't want to. If you don't like trans-men, don't hang out with them. If you disagree with the idea of transition, ....(wait for it)... Don't Transition! Nobody has a gun to anyone's head forcing them to transition or to approve of it as a valid life decision, but some people sure act like it. I have yet to hear even one plausible reason how or why my transition effects anyone outside my family and circle of friends.
I have had the conversation about marriage equality conversation with anti-gay people before. "Ok, say a gay male couple moves next door to you, plants a vegetable garden, engages in hot gay sex everyday within the confines of their own home. How does that effect you?" Their answers are ridiculous:
- my kids will be confused
- God says it's wrong
- Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Steve
- it will destroy America
They can make up reasons, they're just not good ones. Truth is, no one can ever name one concrete effect that gay marriage would have on their lives. In reality, it won't. It's just better to try to justify your opinion, than come out honestly and say, "Ew, I just don't like it."
Anti-trans internet "activists" are the same way. They make heaps of doomsday predictions about how someone transitioning will empower the Patriarchy/ destroy feminism/ unleash Armageddon, but none of those excuses are real either. If these people were honest with themselves, they would just admit the truth. "Ew, I just don't like it." Some obvious reasons, especially concerning butch lesbians, are jealousy, confusing trans-guys with actually being butch lesbians, embarrassment that transition will make all those people right when they claimed that "lesbians just want to be men".
My transition doesn't affect a single lesbian, butch or otherwise, in the entire world. I don't even know any lesbians.
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