I agree with you completely. Transgender people are marginalized, but so are other groups. Women in particular face a lot more systemic issues that many people just don't seem to acknowledge. You are completely right, and women's sport needs just as much funding, diversity, and equality as men's sport. And it is true that this is an enormous portion of the population compared to the small percentage of people who identify as transgender.

However, I am a transgender person -- thus this is the sort of discrimination and hatred I feel projected onto me is from that point of view. While there are larger marginalized groups, such as different racial populations and women, this is merely the one I focus on in the article because I am part of it, and the inspiration for the article was primarily personal.

That being said, while women are a much larger population, and it is pretty obvious the group needs attention and equality, the inequality that women suffer a lot of the time is indirect. I am saying a lot of the time, but I don't entirely agree with such a thing, because of obvious things like sexual assault that women disproportionately are affected by.

I think part of the reason that transgender people are talked about more in the first place is because a lot of the discrimination experienced is direct. It is much more socially acceptable to call someone a " tranny" than it is to call a woman a " dishwasher" or call a racial group by a slur.

Transgender people are

- more likely to commit suicide than any other group

- more likely to experience domestic abuse than any other group

- more likely to experience direct discrimination or attacks on identity than any other group

- and more likely to experience sexual assault than any other group.

I think that saying those objective facts can be misconstrued as narrative-pushing, but I am merely defending my discussion of my marganilized group over your marginilized group. I think that both are horrible, and both deserve discussion, and more importantly; policy. However, due to my subjective biases, despite the fact that the population is smaller, I wanted to speak in support of the other group.

I would love to do a piece on cisgender women, but a lot of these talking points for me also come from personal experience. I was born intersex, and will never be fully male or female, so I cannot relate to the struggles that women deal with. My perspective on such a thing is merely through the lense of data analysis and anecdotal accounts of others' experiences.

To conclude: I agree with you that the topic you are presenting might be more worth discussing, and honestly more important due to the number of people that are affected by it versus my issue. However, I like to add subjective understanding to anything political I discusss, therefore a topic like discrimination against women is not one I do not support, but not one I can make any contribution to that is not ideological or observant of regurgitated statistics. Regardless, I do not think that either group's societal issues outweigh the other's, as equality is equality. True equality and true feminism supports equality for everyone, and equality importance is a hard thing to gauge -- and subjective.

Thanks for your response, it was actually really cool seeing a new topic enter into this discussion !