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This must be understood: Where there is no communication across the lines, each side is encouraged to conflate the issues; and when this happens, the position taken by any side doing this becomes increasingly distorted from reality. Both sides are guilty of this;

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please explain to me how a minority population of 1-percent has " conflated issues?" This is pretty abstract, what exactly are these conflated issues and what have transgender people conflated -- specifically? The way I see it, our history is filled with oppression and vilification, it is silly to act like somehow we are partially responsible for people's prejudice that was here before we arrived and will be here when we leave.

Someone's prejudice against me has nothing to do with me and everything to do with them. That's their problem.

I would say I generally agree with the rest of your response, though it does seem to conflate sex and gender. The exception would be your first paragraph,

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This is the only article in your series that I have read; however, since this is not a critique of your essay but an address of the meme itself, I don't think that's necessary.

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I find pieces like this to be entirely[ necessary. While I might not convert the strongest transphobe to an ally by any means, the more moderate crowd can be exposed to the ideas on both side of the argument and watch the other side's arguments fall apart.

After all, there is in fact a right answer. I am just trying to make my contribution to push us the right way.