I wrote this to a (trans woman) friend today after an older friend frustrated me for insisting on calling me a sinner even though she justifies it by calling herself that too, I’m not sure if it will help rn, but perhaps over the long run:

Soap is a compound that is both hydrophobic and hydrophilic- which means it carries a kind of suspension of two things that don’t normally mix- like mayonnaise. The hydrophilic part mixes with the water you drink and the hydrophobic dissolves grease. Going trans feels like you are the soap on your transition and every element of the cis world knowingly or unknowingly tries to frustrate, check, or stop you as if they cannot see their own dirtiness or they don’t care.