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My friend is Christian, so she thought boys being girls and girls being boys didn't make sense. Her reasoning was that "God made female and male." She started a discussion with a TIF about what supposedly made her male, and this fight broke out. Imagine this, a young black girl who's gone through a lot of abuse growing up being verbally attacked by a towering, grown white man and white girls in denial about how she doesn't know struggle and should check her privilege. Ever since then, she never really wanted to engage in discussion about it again. If she came across a trans person, she used their preferred pronouns and name and went on with her life. Another time she kindly asked someone "what made someone feel like a man." The specialgenderqueertrans kids at school didn't like that so they talked badly behind her back spreading rumors.

I can talk to her about these issues but she really isn't invested in them. She's quite busy so she doesn't really want to spend her freetime talking about something like this. Sometimes I'll rant to her, she'll listen and agree but I don't want to stress her out considering her experience.