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Cool, I'll check it out, but the claim is still a strawman.
I'm a vegan. When i see people eating beef, I don't claim "either you like hurting cows, or you've been duped by people who hate animals".
The claim itself is stupid and needlessly inflammatory.
I'm not a vegan or even a vegetarian, but I wouldn't argue with you if you made that claim, because the only reason we as a society eat as much meat as we do, is because it's normalised at every level for economic reasons.
If I can manage that, you can manage to not argue with trans people trying to deal with the active and ongoing exclusion they face.
Here's the issue though:
The claim itself is a strawman, the fact that you are willing to accept it means your epistemology is bad.