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No, because doing one means doing the other. Who do you think is waging the culture war in the first place?
Personally, as a trans person, I don't want your loyalty. I don't care about your loyalty. We don't know one another at all so I don't even know if you're someone I'd actually want to hang around; and I'm not gonna ask for loyalty from a total stranger.
What I want is for you to act like a decent human being and understand that the culture war is part of a much larger war about wealth inequality; and that you're going to struggle if you allow your allies to slowly get picked off by the ones waging the war in the first place. If that occurred then the best you could hope for would be a pyrrhic victory that leaves you asking, "we won, but at what cost?"
There you go doing it again. You're conflating your agenda with another one to make it seem like people should, say, call you a woman if they want to reduce the disparity in wealth.
That's a load of malarkey and proves my point even further. It's sad how the ruling class is robbing us blind because people like you are trying to piggyback your agenda on problems that face the working class.
Also, you personally may not want loyalty but hopefully you can recognize that you are the outlier in that regard.
Damn, you must be a pretty shallow-minded person to miss the fact that the culture war is perpetuated by the rich to keep us from working together. Racism, religious institutions, sexism, queerphobia, these are tools that the rich and powerful use to keep us divided. When you allow them to wage a culture war unopposed, you are letting them use their ideological "weapons of war" without retaliation.
And no, this isn't just about wanting to be called a woman. This is about being made illegal for who I am. I can't fight against the wealth gap if I'm in prison for having tits and a dick, now can I? I can't fight against the wealth gap if I'm struggling from derealization, depersonalization, dissociation, and suicidal depression brought about by crippling dysphoria as a result of being unable to access estrogen, now can I?
Sorry, the censorship says otherwise. You may be speaking for yourself, but the movement at large wants to control how people see others.
Isn't it good we have experts like you to tell trans people they don't know what the trans rights movement is about?
Actions speak louder than words.