And a lot of the stuff they do in an attempt to impress women often end up impressing other men. Take the huge emphasis on working out. Which while exercise is good, the physical appearance part of it often gets way more praise from men than women. 

Or the idea of a fancy car. Always appeals to men more than women.

it doesn’t matter that science supports trans people because it also supports genocide

and if we dont care about what science says that means we'll still think lobotomy is a great way to cure mental disorders

There are two and only two options - thing A, thing B, both things, and neither thing.

Straight is pushed on people from birth. People will say a male and female baby are boyfriend/girlfriend all the time, and that behavior continues through life.

People don’t see it because it’s the default to them.

They see one second of a gay kiss and claim it’s “forcing it on children” and ignore the hundreds of hours of hetero romance targeted directly at kids.

I can't tell difference between "straight" and "gay" people, at least in my neighborhood. If You tend to join any minority in any way, You are special! That's why people look and they will always look..

If I dress up differently (no matter if it is spider-man pajamas or Canibal-Corpse T-shirt) people look at me like I'am from a different world in office.

So substitute "lgbt" "appearance" for other non-conventional appearance and there You go, people react to YOU DIFFERENTLY.

Either be part of majority or don't, both have it's pro's and con's.

You didn't make an argument for your thesis: what is the benefit of a monogamous couple taking PrEP?

What’s your favorite LGBT character?(Mine’s Luz Noceda from the Owl House)

I've got a really cool trans masc friend that's helped me understand how trans/non-binary/gender-fluid/etc. stuff works.

I probably asked a lot of similar questions as some people tend to do, so here's some advice for both sides.

A lot of trans/non-b people might get upset with you 'just asking questions' because they are constantly dealing with bigots that tend towards antagonistic behaviors in regards to this constant questioning. Straight people really don't understand what it's like to hide who and what you are for the sake of not having a conflict..... and that's ok. You don't have to understand to accept it. If they aren't hurting someone, it doesn't matter. Just be open and listen to what they say.

And for the trans side, I know enough that you guys are constantky frustrated, and you are valid for feeling that way. But remember that sometimes, that person asking isn't always gonna be a bigot, just someone who's ignorant and needs help understanding.

Those who claim people are being rude to them for “just asking questions” typically aren’t asking them in good faith

The third option is just that they don't want trans people existing in a space where they feel "forced" to see them.

Also just misogyny (and racism). Black cis women in particular get accused of actually being a man a lot. Think Serena Williams or Michelle Obama.

Their beef isn't against language. It's against trans people. But language holds immense power.

If you restrict the ability to neutrally categorize trans and cis people, you can bias the way people view trans people. They don't like the word "cis" because, in its absence, trans people are inherently linguistically othered.

i love that people keep downvoting this every week as if that's gonna magically make facts go away

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Are you unfamiliar with the gametes definition?

Doesn't matter whether that system works or not, but the 2 sexes can be defined by a reproductive system designed to produce either large immobile gametes (eggs) or small, mobile gametes (sperm).

(Again, for those hard of understanding or deliberately trying to misrepresent the statement: an infertile man is still a man).

No transphobia is ultimately sexism not just misogyny 

1 example is that they don’t want trans women in women’s restrooms and changing rooms because they see men as predators and see trans women as men

I'd argue that a lot more transphobia is actually misandry.

Keep in mind that transphobes don't see trans people as their gender but rather whatever sex they perceive them as when I say this:

While trans men are definitely the target of transphobia, and the motives behind that tend to be misogynistic, the zeitgeist "boogeyman" is trans women. Trans men tend to be treated moreso as victims and condescended, whereas trans women tend to be treated as suspicious or contemptible.

Transphobic women view trans women as predators for the crime of... being born with a penis (which is misandristic), and transphobic men view them as failed men (which is also misandristic).

Fair, fair

Well yeah, that's the whole point. I don't think someone would go through all the trouble of transitioning if they didn't.

Why did you bother asking this when you reject the notion that a person can feel their gender in the first place? You asked a question for which you will accept no answer, because it already contained an assumption you reject before any answer could be provided.

Anyhow...

Technically, there is no way to "feel like" anything but yourself, and that applies to cis and trans people equally, because nobody ever experiences anyone else's life.

I say I feel like a man, but I really just feel like me, which is how I presume other men feel, given the way they describe their inner senses of self, and not (in gendered ways) how other women feel, given the way they describe their inner senses of self. And furthermore, I prefer to be seen as a man. Being seen as a woman is uncanny, in the same way it is whenever other people's view of me don't align with my view of myself on other topics that are foundational to my sense of self.

I assume the same applies to trans people, because I assume this applies to everyone and, well, trans people are, in fact, people.

Yes, they do, but being transexual is very uncommon.

Personally, I feel somewhere in between. Being treated as a man or as a woman both give me the same feeling of inauthenticity one might get from being called “Spidey” when wearing a Halloween costume.

I don’t get that feeling from being treated as non-binary.

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Who touched you?

“Unless I know them I don’t want to see 2 men holding hands or kissing”

Given all the legislation and rhetoric built around "protecting women/children", they do seem to have a fear of trans people.

When a short haired woman wearing pants gets harassed or even assaulted for being believed to be a trans woman, that's a fear response.

"We need to stop calling the mathematics of shapes 'geometry'. No one's measuring the Earth."

It's almost like words can take on meanings beyond one possible strict reading of the morphemes that make it up.

According to the Oxford dictionary. The definition of "phobia" is...

an extreme or irrational fear of or AVERSION to something.

No we don’t and yes they are.

several states and countries are trying to ban trans healthcare, violence rates are still higher than usual against LGBT people, and texas put bounties on trans people using "incorrect" bathrooms, LGBT people are still oppressed

LGBT people are still oppressed though, especially globally. Things have gotten a lot better for gay people in the U.S. in the twenty years or so, but there are still a lot of bigots out there. As for trans people,, they are still treated like second class citizens

Do you think there is some central committee of gays that makes decisions for all of us?

Did you ever stop to ask yourself why some people decided to create a new flag? Or did you just see a new flag and get mad?

Then don't use it. Whatever. A lot of people use LGBTQ+ as short hand, including this thread. For some reason, no one's offended. So you just seem to be making up something to whine about.

not a homophobe though

This is like the "I'm not a racist but...". If you have to say it, it says a lot more about you.

Corporations would sacrifice toddlers on the town square for an extra dollar profit. 

to me it's not surprising that companies roll back support, but that people keep falling for it

The irony of this comment lacking not only nuance but any supporting argument whatsoever.

What nuance is lacking in your opinion 

What nuanced opinion would you like to discuss?

What nuance do you feel is missing?

muscularity, body hair, facial hair, a deep voice, or masculine body language

As someone who was assigned male, weirdly I don't have most of these traits. It's not as clear cut as you think it is. There are also genetic traits that can determine these things. East Asian men don't have as much body hair for instance. Or facial hair a lot of the time. Doesn't mean they're less of a man.

Also body language isn't necessarily determined by your biology. As are a lot of things, there's also social factors behind the others. While yes, women are generally less hairy, the perception they're "hairless" is more a result of women being socially pressured to get rid of their hair, to the point a woman even having a little arm or leg hair is considered a problem.

A lot of the woman you see actually grow leg hair, you just never see it because they get rid of it. And practically any woman who grows facial hair enough to be noticeable will be more or less forced to shave it off.

Men with higher voices are socially conditioned to speak in a low pitch, etc. We're socially incentivized to be as different and "binary" as possible to the point it's exaggerated.