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View submission: Trans Women, Male Privilege, and the Intersectionality of Patriarchal Oppression
I think I understand now where the miscommunication happened in this comment thread. First of all, neither I nor /u/FeelGuiltThrowaway94 (I assume, obviously I cannot speak for her directly) were questioning or attacking the criticism of the OP by the original commenter. I think the criticism itself was perfectly valid, and in general I found the OP rather generalizing and oversimplifying when it came to both trans and cis experiences. It also would've been better off as a conversation starter, not as trying to condense an incredibly nuanced subject as a preachy post of "let me tell you how it is".
What I believe she was trying to say was exactly what I also said later - that the last paragraph of the original commenters post is dismissive and leans heavily into completely made up stereotypes of what trans women are like, and what transitioning actually means. She did not express this very clearly, and since you're unfamiliar with the microaggression that prompted it I don't blame you for misinterpreting her post as being an attempt at a rebuke of the original commenter's points about many cis women also facing significant struggles with gender identity in their lives.
I'd also like to say that I definitely don't agree with it being somehow a negative thing to say that sometimes people belonging to specific groups categorically cannot understand the full extent of something people belonging to another group experience. As a trans woman, I will never have a full understanding of menstruation and the physical and cultural implications of it. That doesn't mean I can't have empathy for people who do - it's just an acknowledgment that my body does not do that, and that experience is not mine. Similarly someone who has not experienced gender dysphoria or a cross-sex transition will never have a full understanding of that experience. Stating that is not asserting some kind of competition, or an attack on anyone.
There's nothing here!