You're right, I know absolutely nothing about trans people or trans culture. I only have one trans person in my group of friends and she is someone I've only met relatively recently. Growing up I knew a lot of gay men and lesbian women, several are still my friends to this day, but in my area trans people are rarer. I am working to understand the culture better, but I am rather uneducated in it, so I can only go off what little experience I have.

The 'plate' example was to give you a non-controversial example of emotional bias despite rationalized belief. It has nothing to do with sexuality and is of course a trivial matter. It was merely to illustrate how disconnected emotions can be from the rational mind. Despite my conscious, rational knowledge of something, my emotions might disagree.

As for my attempted absurdism, upon rereading now that I'm fed and more awake, I now see where you're coming from. You're right, I should have chosen my examples more carefully, and I should not start debates this early in the morning. Though it did work to at least spark conversation!

And working through hang ups about trans people is a small charge, however can you at least agree that calling everyone who currently struggles to date a trans person "assholes" is going a bit far?