I ' m in the same boat and I ' m trans myself . I ' ve really lost a lot of faith in all forms of political discourse over the past year , and especially in the past few weeks since Trump ' s unexpected victory . There seems to be no goal except winning for 90 % of the public and zero concern at all about hypocrisy . Almost every liberal friend I had that was going on about how Trump should be disqualified for creating doubt about the outcome when it looked like he was going to lose is now calling for a recount . Almost every conservative friend I had who was going on about how Obama is a dictator come to take everyone ' s guns is now berating people for not unifying behind Trump . How do we even begin to untangle this mess ?