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We all have lives. I sometimes remember that I was discussing something with someone weeks later.
In the end my trans friends, LGBTQ friends, my lesbian daughter, and my son and daughter's LGBTQ, non-binary, and trans friends and everyone who knows me knows that I'm not a transphobe. They know that I'm an ally. They know that they can count on me for support and that I will actively protect them.
Being labelled a transphobe by someone who doesn't know me and obviously has rather extreme views is less than meaningless to me. I engaged in the coversation to try to help her to understand my position and that labelling anyone who wasn't interested in having sex with her, no matter how much of an ally they really were, was counterproductive. I did my best. I'm going to keep doing my best to be an ally no matter how much people who demand thought perfection label me. That's just who I am.