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So, where do we all stand on the "do unto others as you would have others do on to you" philosophy?
That sentiment is nice and all, but considering that a nontrivial percentage of conservatives literally want to murder me for my gender identity, I'm not going to treat those people the way I would want to be treated
That sentiment, if followed by everyone, would make for a really good and peaceful world to live in. It's something we should all strive for.
I doubt the majority of conservatives would want to literally murder you.
There are always a few crazies on either end that we all have to deal with.
My suggestion would be to live somewhere where the majority of the people you live amongst don't give a flying f about your gender identity and will not harass you about it.
And then work politically for change, maybe even running for office.
And if you can't move, try to find others with the same circumstances as you and network with them, work together, and try to affect change as a group.
An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
Human beings are easy to ramp up into destruction, and hard to keep passive into peace.
The reality is we can't all just go and do what we want, whenever we want, we have an ethical and social contract with each other that we all need to adhere to.
When that is not done, war and death happens.
Never said they all want to murder me, you just conveniently left that part out so you could argue against a position I didn't take.
The ones that do want to murder me don't deserve the same treatment as those who do. I'd recommend reading eg https://medium.com/extra-extra/tolerance-is-not-a-moral-precept-1af7007d637.
As for moving, I'm absolutely not about to allow right-wingers to control my life to that extent that I'd move to some other country.