I am a senior in high school and for our english final our teacher had us present slides on sacrifices and success to become a hero. Near the end of everyone’s presentations the last person to go was this girl (who I have absolutely no problems with) that I think is trans or really strong LGBQ rights activist kinda person. 

  Her hero was actually quite cool, it was like the first openly trans black woman and how she started riots and fought for rights to be given to the LGBT community which is really badass. But then when she got to like the finale of it she started talking about her struggles and how she had been arrested numerous times and that she needed to have “survival sex” to live or maybe she meant prostitution? Either way I wasn’t really sure what she meant but I grinned at the word, I thought of like 2 people battling to the death in the sex situation and one of them surviving. She finished it up by saying that she didn’t understand why some of us were laughing ( a couple other people in the class thought survival sex was weird too ).

  She then sat down asked me if I thought what she said was funny, and I was kinda stunned so I like said no right away, and then the class kinda got on her for being rude and yelling at me. She apologized and said she was really defensive about all of this stuff. 

I just wanna know if I was an asshole because by no means was I like laughing out loud l, but I grinned and maybe blew air hard out of my nose? I feel really bad about this and I feel like she thinks I hate LGBT people or something. 

Thank you 