At the risk of attacking the writer rather than the argument, I am really troubled at their self-labelling as a woman. I see a man, wearing a man's shirt, going by a man't name. I went through a transition and had sex reassignment surgery in the 1990s, dealing with the pervs at the Clarke in Toronto as part of the bargain.  That being said, it also means that so much modern trans vocabulary is as foreign to me as it is for (statistically) normal people. As far as I am concerned, gender is a role. There is a long period of adjustment, and coping with changed roles, attitudes and expectation. This person claims to be a woman though shows no evidence of actually live as one. It really leads credence to arguments by those who can't or won't understand the inability to conform to one's sex at birth that gender identity is as much a label. I can't help but think that it's preposterous for this person to speak for trans people, by self-labelling when he does not appear to have any experience.