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Real answer coming. The poster in the pic is ignorant; but at least they asked in good-ish faith, so I ain't judging.
Being queer (ie. anything other than straight and/or feeling the same gender as how you were born) is a crime in many countries.
From things like..
to more...
And even cishet people, with a certain "privilege", still also suffer due to this artificial segregation, because of:
Frankly, we'd all be more relaxed with it all, if we just put a shovel up bigots' arses, and called them pussies/hags/fools for not caring about everyone. Free speech especially means free speech for the repressed queers and allies!
This affects any gender or orientation. When I was a boy I wanted to play netball because my big sister played that. But that's a girls game. Had she wanted to play basketball she would have gotten similar rejection.
Yup, hence why I said also (ie. both cishet and queer people suffer under this exclusion).
That said, as another commentor already pointed out, the consequences are often a lot worse for trans people. But the fact is that this is a stupid gatekeep for all of us, and so it needs to be broken down.
While stuff like that sucks it's not quite comparable to what trans people go through.
Indeed, notably the newsworthy bad stuff coming from the US recently. Trans was hardly recognised when my story is set, and my real point was "it's not just trans people, it's not just one gender"
In summary, when being yourself is quite literally illegal, there's nothing else to lose by wanting to improve your life a little bit while spitting back at the opressive institutions that made you illegal in the first place.
So the victim gets to have her life screwed up for the next three quarters of a year just to bring to birth a collection of non sentient cells? Do you realise how monstrous your position is? Have you ever thought about it beyond listening to the indoctrinator who told you that was the moral position?
You seem to also think counseling would be sufficient, so do you actually think the victim of crime should also be obliged to raise a set of non sentient cells they didn't want to give birth to or be in charge of, or afford, to adulthood?