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Some of us are queer AND ND, you know... in fact, most queer people I know are ND in one form or another. An anecdote isn't data of course, but have you ever checked out, say for example, the prevalence of autism among trans people? These experiences aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.
Your experience is valid, and you're not wrong at all to feel that advocacy within the realm of mental health has so much catching up to do. That being said, everything you wrote kind of contradicts your first statement. Your own outlook is an "us vs them" conceptualization, I do hope you recognize that (it seems you do) and are working towards breaking out of that. I get it's not easy to be vulnerable in this way and discuss how you feel in this regard, and you do make some very valid points when it comes to perpetuating harm through outdated methodologies and such, but it really is another discussion entirely.