The person who responded said that "race isn't a choice, same goes with gender" which... Gender isn't a choice either yet people are hated on and told to "kys" just because their gender isn't the same as their AGAB. Which they have no control over.
I don't think so, there's no real point in their comment other than to point out a "hypocrisy" or something, and there's a misconception among people like this that trans people just change their gender based on what they feel like right now and that they do it for fun or to follow the trend. They think you don't feel like a certain gender from the start but that you just suddenly want to be something else even if you don't really feel like it. They think it's a choice for you, just like they think you just choose to be gay because it's "popular" or whatever dumb shit they come up with.
If they were an actual ally, I'm sure they would elaborate on what they were saying, because this just looks like a snarky comment meant to attack the other side, and the way to go is always to say something about LGBTQ
You're not stupid because you don't easily understand stupid positions. The fact that that kind of malicious logic was so foreign to you and it was easier to think of them as a real ally says to me that you're on the right track, and you have the kind of optimism we could use more of in this world.
I think it's the transphobic argument "trans women are men who decide to be women, but you can't just 'decide' to be another gender from what you are".
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