The Right Way to be Trans and the Wrong Way to be Trans?

If you listen to the anti-trans people you will often hear them claim that there are the “right sort of trans people” and the “wrong sort of trans people”, this has nothing to do with how they look, how they act, how they dress. It comes down to what they say publicly and if they agree or disagree with their anti-trans talking point. So for them, the “right trans person” is one that will agree with them and their viewpoint and know their place in the whole pecking order of the anti-trans movement. Unsurprisingly there are very few of these types of trans people.

Then they are used, by the anti-trans movement to say that they are not transphobic as I know trans people and I like them so how can I be transphobic. An argument that has been used every time where a minority group has campaigned for a change in the law to receive equal rights. From the civil rights movement in the USA where people would claim to know Black people to state that they were not racist even though they were opposing things like the integration of education. Another example could be when the LGBT community were campaigning for the equalisation of the age of consent in the UK, those opposing it would say I have gay friends who oppose it to so how can I be homophobic?

They find a few of the group they are trying to deny a change in the law to, that they…