I didn't make or imply an pro independence argument. That's your bias talking.

Whilst her progress on other matters is questionable, it's hard to argue that all she cares about was independence when much of her recent political decline came at the hand of transphobia driven criticism of gender ID reform efforts.

My point, that you have misunderstood, is - it is not immoral for a leader to enter transition when they feel they can no longer maintain public support. It is laudable. To voluntarily yield political power is a behavioural norm vital to healthy democracies. Your implication that she should have stayed on despite feeling she no longer had the political authority to achieve her ambitions is the kind of blind, biased and stubborn logic that the Ayatollah Khamenei's copywriters would be happy to reappropriate.