Thoughts of trangender life.... the haters

Ok peeps, here's a couple of thoughts about haters I have formed from many, many years of experience. Haters of the LGBT community in general, and in my case haters of the TG/TS specifically. Keep in my this is my opinion only, and I always welcome others views as well.

So in my life I have been exposed to basically 3 kinds of people that automatically choose to hate and judge me without knowing anything about me personally:

1) - The Religiously Righteous:  These people don't like me based on their religious convictions. Convinced I am some sort of abomination against their god, they want nothing to do with any of it! I have no problem with that, they can believe what they want. I would remind them that many of their own scriptures tell of judgment and vengeance being better left to their god, so let's leave it at that ok? If your god hates me, he will let me know, otherwise it has NOTHING to do with you.

2) - The Ignorantly Entrenched:   These people hate you just as much as the above, maybe more. The thing is that I don't think 'Ignorance' is a derogatory term. To me it implies that someone has the 'ability' to learn and comprehend new things, but they just haven't been exposed to the right information yet, for whatever reasons. These people when informed might remain haters, even more convinced they are right, but some will understand. They will see that what they thought and the actual facts were 2 different things, and they change their opinions of you. This latter change is a beautiful thing, the former mentioned 'informed' hater can be dangerous, beware.

TG Encounters of the third kind......

This is from a real life encounter, more than once actually. I will summarize a little to take in all the times it's happened and the slight variations of what people actually have said to me:

So while minding my own business one day, going towards the entrance of a building, a man comes up and says " Are you some kinda faggot?"

I react accordingly and say " Excuse me?"

"Well you were a guy and now you're a girl right? So you must be some kinda faggot changing to a girl just to be with men." he says.

Now although I was tempted to go off on Mr. Insightful, I maintained and replied:

"Well not that it's ANY of your business, but I will tell you EXACTLY what I am so that at least you can hate me from a more informed position. I was born a woman in a mans body, something I am fixing right now. Now you think that makes me a fag, which I assume means you still think I am a guy that wants to be with men (since even homophobes like you don't call 2 girls together fags, you call it entertainment). The thing is that I didn't want to sexually be with men when I looked like one on the outside, and I STILL don't want to be with men as a woman, I like WOMEN YOU IDIOT! Which in my eyes makes me a Lesbian, and in most peoples eyes makes me a Lesbian, but in your case since you still think I am a man, and I've made it clear that I like women, then that would make me heterosexual! Not a Fag!
So now that we've determined that nothing about my gender, sexuality or life has anything to do with your idea of faggots, then we are left with the only remaining truth, which is that you were walking around thinking about fags (more specifically homosexuality) before you ever saw me. Which begs the questions, were you hoping I was gay? Were you hoping to live vicariously through me? Do you have sexuality issues you are trying to transfer on me? Or do you just spew uneducated, uninformed, unfocused hate speak in every direction until you happen to run into someone that fits your vague criteria to deserve your hate?.........."