(That’s also what I meant but I’m also muddling it today.)
It’s all messy and we shouldn’t be judging or mistreating people who are different.
Consent is needed for sexual activity, otherwise be whatever suits you best, however you like.
The problem arises when the box people start to feel threatened by those who don’t fit into a box… we’ve been told for so long that we all can and should be categorized that those who don’t/can’t be easily categorized seem like a real threat to reality, and when people feel threatened they lash out.
Transphobia: when the word of a self-confessed pedophile (interested in saving his own skin) is considered worth more than that of two trans people who risk everything by coming forward.
Last time a cisgendered woman tried to play a transman people complained enough that the actor (ScarJo) ended up dropping the project and apologizing. Hopefully, Halle will do the same.