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After writing to a cis person about some transphobic date-advice they gave to a tans man (an example as pointed out by Kynn: "Dating as an FtM can be hard. There are the girls who want to date a man, the men who want to date a man, and then the people who want to date a transsexual."), keeva received these responses from the columnist:

I never set myself up as an expert. I freely admitted that I am more or less cisgendered, and writing for an audience who are more or less cisgendered as well. Our trans audience is small. I need to write to a larger audience. I needed to make some points clear, such as the fact that trans men and women are just men and women who have a hell of a lot more shit to deal with than most people. I asked if he would feel comfortable ticking the 'male' and 'bi' boxes because I don't feel comfortable ticking a 'female' box.

As to my terminology, I know the current debate about what is the acceptable terminology. I know that no matter what words I choose to use, someone will take offense to them. MtF, FtM, and female-bodied seemed to be the easiest to get my point across at this moment. I know that trans people are biologically and essentially the gender that they present. I also know a few people that would get extremely upset at me using the phrase 'trans people' or 'trans man'. I can't please everyone.

So, yeah. Thanks, but I don't care what you say. I will keep dehumanizing you because someone will get mad at me whatever I do!