Trans women will often drift into militancy out of a kind of necessity. We don't really choose to be hardasses about shit and honestly a lot of us are pretty nice but many people's first encounter with us is when they decide to say some dumb shit we've heard about a thousand times and won't drop it.
We're not saints, we're exactly like everyone else and when you fuck with someone a long enough time they start telling you to go fuck yourself right back. And a lot of people's first experience is with us on the far end of that curve when we're not exactly tolerating their shit anymore.
I remember *several* people wanted to tell me about how trans women in women's sports was unfair the moment I came out as trans to them. It was so fucking weird.
