I definitely go out of my way to respect other people's identities, and I want them to respect mine. However, I find that that last part rarely happens. These people are hypocrites, plain and simple. I could have written nearly every word you have here.

I think people like Blair and Buck are far too mean to people who are clearly having issues of some sort, but I mostly agree with them ideologically.

The goal should be mutual respect. Part of that mutual respect is respecting the differences between transsexuals and the umbrella transgender community.

That's a lot more difficult to do now that they have taken the word 'transgender' which originally meant one variation or another of crossdresser and expanded it to an umbrella term.

It was taken one step farther when activists under the umbrella decided that the word 'transsexual' was passe, even a slur.

This allowed then to shift the meaning of the root 'trans' to mean transgender instead of transsexual.

This is why I used to agree with truscum that one needs dysphoria to be trans. I actually can't say that now because I believe gender euphoria is valid.

But there's absolutely no doubt that it needs to be delineated in order to address the severity of dysphoria.