I see your point, but I do disagree with it. Of course, my goal is not to amplify their message; though I understand that merely addressing something gives it publicity, and to some extent you are always platforming someone when you mention them or... Literally link their video in your Medium page.

My opinion of Joe Rogan is not that he's likeable. I think he's a careless, harmful moron who has caused a lot of damage -- but I don't think he's a bad person.

I guess there are a few things I would like to cite, in my defense.
1. Joe Rogan's podcast is the most listened to on the internet, I am a small writer on Medium who mostly writes about scientific programming -- most people who are here have already heard Joe Rogan's takes before -- they just haven't heard mine. I'm punching up.
2. While there is a certain disadvantage to reciprocating the information in the video, there are also advantages to being able to share my responses to the video. This could be helpful information for allies to defend against these awful arguments, or it could be showing someone who is on the fence the reality.
3. When Joe Rogan is saying trans this and trans that, there is no voice to the group. It's almost dehumanizing, and in a way I am almost trying to juxtapose these kind of viewpoints with my own self and thoughts, if that makes sense. It is much easier to be prejudice without interpersonal experience on some level -- which is why I try to be nice and consider that a lot of these people have just been tricked. Even in the responses there has been the occasional " well you're different, but transgender "ism" overall ..." because it's simply harder to hold this kind of perspective when you are talking to someone directly contrary to it. Similar to my point about Joe Rogan; I think he's a fool, but he's not the only one who has been convinced by this stuff. Just because he is causing damage doesn't mean he is a bad person, because it is not necessarily intentional in some cases. I think Joe is just like a lot of people... He's been misled. Even my mother and I got into an argument about whether transgender people were indoctrinating people -- I don't think you have to be a horrible person to fall for propaganda. Joe Rogan is not a bad person in the same way that German soldiers in WW2 weren't bad people... If that analogy helps it make more sense. He's not an ideological root, merely a pawn for the ideological root; Fox news has ruined him.
4. It's simply hard not to respond. You know, it really isn't easy to watch this stuff. I know the simple answer there is just to avoid it, but it has become pretty much impossible after the 2020s. I never pictured myself writing political or transgender content. This changed in 2020. It became so inescapable, suddenly it was everywhere, and suddenly things just gradually started getting worse and worse. I was in Tennessee at the time. The beginning of this for me was reading the news, then slowly I started noticing it more and more on social media. Then I started to notice.. just this weird air in public that wasn't there before? Don't get me wrong, there was a difference between presenting as a man and woman in the first place, but it had suddenly gotten to a point where people will look at me with blank stares -- in a very weird way, too, they will not stop looking even if you keep glancing at them, like you would expect a sane human to do. This escalated, I have now had 2 landlords kick me out because I am transgender (I'm actually in the process of the second one trying to) because we don't have eviction protection for transgender people in the South. An aside; I'm going out West this time.
I've also been attacked twice, and I've had a few experiences where people have screamed at me calling me slurs or what have you. Things only got worse after the whole Low Thomas thing.
It's just really frustrating I guess, I am a very pragmatically minded person and I understand that prejudice is irrational but I have to believe we can make a difference by exposing how prejudice is irrational, exposing the lies that prejudice tells.

I guess it is hard not to write about it because I have experienced this sudden change where things have gotten worse, and it is frustrating to not be able to return. It wasn't great before, but it was bearable. Now every year it becomes more and more unbearable. There is no escape, not even the internet. It's not so much me I'm worried about, it's other children who are just like me. Everytime I start to say this it makes me cry, I'm tearing up. It's about children who shouldn't have to go through what I have gone through... And I don't want my children to have to deal with kids at school picking on them because their mother is a minority.

Thanks for your response. I'm sorry for writing a book, I just wanted to be thorough and do my best to put into words how this all feels, and why I am doing this. I don't feel it is an option anymore, whether effective or not it is at the point where I have to do something... And the only things I know how to do are program, write, and play music.