&quot;That&#x27;s why I&#x27;m insulted by your characterization of Ms. Paglia. You haven&#x27;t lived her experience. You don&#x27;t know what it is like to be her, yet you consider yourself competent to judge based on your assumptions of her knowledge - and they are assumptions. You simply don&#x27;t know.&quot;<p>Is she a licensed therapist? If not, then she needs to kindly STFU about issues she has no expertise in. Dunning-Kruger is definitely in full effect with her when it comes to psychology. Especially since her expertise largely revolves around literature and art. Not psychology, not biology, not neurology: art. Think about that for a moment. An Art major is telling trans people they&#x27;re &quot;deluded&quot; when she doesn&#x27;t even have the chops to deal with the basics of developmental psychology. So why should anyone that&#x27;s trans listen to her, exactly?<p>&quot;She never asked for your opinion of her or your assumptions.&quot;<p>And I didn&#x27;t ask for her bigoted opinions to be treated as factual currency for how to mistreat trans people. Her words can affect and harm trans people because she&#x27;s touted as an &quot;expert&quot; where as my words are that of a stranger, a nobody, a nada, thus they&#x27;re not given the same weight or affect on policy. She knows this and that&#x27;s why she says the things she says. Both to get seen in print and to possibly gain the favor of the powers that be that are sympathetic to her views.