"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."

This is exactly the same mentality that tells a cardiac surgeon, "I don't know why you had to freak me out so much about how I was going to without that surgery. Because I'm clearly alive now after the surgery."