I worked my ass off for almost 6 years to get my degree, while paying child support and helping a second child through college. I had almost no support from my lower middle class parents, and I ended up in severe debt when it was finished. I earned every letter of my degree, and for you to call it "unearned privilege" is snotty arrogance. If you can't discuss an issue without ad hominem attacks on the person you had conversation with, you should keep your vitriol to yourself. When you have accomplished something in your life, you might understand.

Also, I don't attack people who don't call me "doctor". It doesn't destroy me, it doesn't make me cry, it doesn't negate the importance of my degree, and I won't attack the person who failed to call me "doctor" and accuse them of all kinds of things that I know nothing about.

"You say trans people have no right to use and expect others to use their actual name, pronoun, and honorific, why should anyone honor YOURS?" NO, I did not say anything like that at all. Putting words into someone else's mouth, then criticizing them for your own words is the height of dishonesty. I will not accept an alteration of the English language to insert plural words into singular connotations, and I oppose trans women competing in women's sports. Other than that, I have absolutely nothing against trans people, and I will call them whatever singular pronoun they choose.

But your self-absorption does not make this acceptable. You think you are just so special that you now make all the rules, you can demand we change our language to accompany your new discovery of your alternative sexuality. Well, listen up - you can't. It is not your personal language to alter. The English language belongs to all of us, and I do not accept your right to alter it to fit whatever changes in your life you are going through.

So you can take your personal attacks and shove them where the sun doesn't shine. You don't know me, you have no right to judge me.