Apologist Thinks Transgender People Should Change Who They Are (Because that's the only way to be accepted)

What is compassion? Most of us might say: empathy, understanding, wanting to help. Matt seems to think it means telling you to get back in line, and do as you're told, because your well-being doesn't matter. He goes on to equivocate about the meaning of acceptance, and how hurt he feels when we trans folk and allies call him out for saying hurtful things, rejecting our agency, and demanding we be who he thinks we should be, rather than who we are.  All of this is case in point for why I'm here, and why all of us need to stand up to the cultural bully that is fundamentalist Christianity. There are people who believe like Matt does who hold real law-making power, and they're doing real damage. Pushing back on the beliefs at the core of that kind of bigotry is the best and only way to effectively limit their power to harm everyone, us included.