Hi! Um, listen, I am a cisfeminist and I will never understand what you’ve been through. I could never understand, it’s so far beyond my own lived experience, it would be stupid of me to pretend otherwise. And I could say lots of things like I’m sorry or we’ll do better, but those are platitudes that don’t actually help. What I want to say is thank you. From the note at the beginning it sounds like you didn’t really intend this to become a public thing, for which I’m sorry that your privacy was violated, but on the other hand… I’ve never read anything like this. And, let’s be honest, I probably wouldn’t unless I went looking. But it’s important, vital, for me to read stories like this, stories that are not about my own experience, about the oppression I already know. I need to read stories that question my perspective. Everyone does. And I know you didn’t write this for me, not that you should have! But I wanted to say thank you. Because the questioning will make me consider what I’m saying and how I’m saying it. And I think that’s a good thing. And I thought you’d want to know that this has positive effects, that you can make people listen and make them try. I won’t tell you any lies about how this is going to change everything, you know well enough it won’t. But it’s a start, it helps, and I’m glad I read it. You make cis people angry. That’s a good thing. We deserve to confront our own privilege and our own ignorance. We need it, badly, to have our neat binary trashed and our codes of conduct rewritten. And, that will take years of course. But the more people point out our hypocrisy and refuse to be categorized according to our system, I think that pushes the process along. Just thank you. There’s really nothing else for me to say.