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Not surprisingly, trans people are frequent targets of discrimination and hate crimes. Also not surprisingly, they are constantly misunderstood or rejected, even by certain gay people who suffer from internalized homophobia and fear that trans people might perpetuate stereotypes about gay people. Of course it's hard to understand people who defy our definitions of man or woman. In fact, many people with gender differences don't fit into the neat categories we create for them, and many of them resent attempts at labeling them. Many of them don't understand themselves. But, please, stop thinking that gay and trans always overlap, or that you have the right to beat up, murder, harass, or discriminate against any group. I'd rather see a seven-foot, hairy-chested man in a blouse than a Neo-Nazi in a three-piece suit any day.