people who say they "disagree."

[Jen-Jen]

I think what they're trying to say is: "I wish you would stop being gay / trans, but I'm not going to do anything to MAKE you stop, and I'm not going to even bother arguing with you about it, since I suspect you'd win anyway, since my views are probably based on ingrained cultural biases and/or religion, which never withstands the scrutiny of logic anyway. Thus, I'm just going to say I 'tolerate' you, as if I have some other valid choice and I'm being the better person or something."

Wow! Couldn't of said it better myself! But I believe the following is the shorter more true version of this.

"I need you to go back to living a miserable existence. I want you to lose the will to live. If it kills you, well sorry, but you make me uncomfortable and I can't abide it."

either way people are never going to understand it, there not the ones living it!

[Mahsa Tezani]

My advice is not to talk about transition or being transsexual with certain people. I consider transition and my sexuality a very personal thing...Unless it's your family who said this.

[Karla]

Jesus Christ the arrogance!
It's not their place to disagree.. but their sense of relative 'normality' makes them think they have the right to.
I either ignore those folks or tell it to them like it is.. and if someone starts with the keyword 'lifestyle' they'd have lost me altogether.

[justmeinoz]

I'm inclined to reply that I will tolerate their heterosexual lifestyle. As long as they don't flaunt it publicly, and offend me, that's ok, and when did they choose a straight sexuality anyway?.