[andybak]

You've lumped several things that differ hugely in seriousness together into one package and asked everyone to pick sides.

How about if I don't accept your packaging of related issues. Are you insisting that I'm therefore not allowed to pick the side of transgender people?

From a purely strategic level - how best to achieve the worthy aim of improving the lot of transgender people - this strikes me as a mistake. I think the outcome will be worse than a more tolerant approach to forming an alliance.

(How ironic that I ended up using the word "tolerance" in trying to explain that... )