Having once ran a site (the 'party), with a large trans minority userbase, and having met some of those users, my opinions on this group of people have changed significantly over the years. Being perhaps the most mocked and hated group of people on the internet, what little information I saw about them was negative. As the discourse on social media and bulletin boards changed, they became a fixture of discussions on my website. At the time, I considered them to be just another boogeyman. Or perhaps just a new form of calling people "gay" or "f**"s. I didn't realise until much later that there were actually many trans users of my website.