This is not just an unpopular opinion - It's an opinion that actively leads to the death of thousands of people a year worldwide. People just like me. This is the only opinion here that i will actively say "go fuck yourself." to. There's having beliefs that are different from other people, and then there is having beliefs that get other people actively killed, and giving social disadvantage to those who it doesn't kill. Like, what the fuck did I or any other trans person do to you, man? It costs you literally nothing to treat us like we're slightly above dirt, but it's "inconvenient" to call me a woman, or call my friend a man so you just won't do it. All I want is to look in the mirror and not hate myself and what I see, and then be treated with respect like anybody else. I don't see how that is imposing on you too unduly.
There certainly are many victims of the patriarchy, many of them like you, many more of them not. If you think I support that in any way, then you've grossly misunderstood my statement. Your personal attack at merely reading an opinion slightly different from your own is one of the greatest problems in our "liberal" society these days. There's a reason why opinions like this can not be openly shared, even in a safe space like this, at the risk of being attacked.
You don't get it, man. You are attacking a fundamental piece of my identity and expecting me to be "nice" about it, as if parts of myself that I know unequivocally (and that have been backed up by years of scientific studies) are something that you can just debate without consequence. As to why I think you support it, the title of this post is "Shake it up. Offer up one somewhat unpopular opinion that you hold.", emphasis mine, of course. So if you don't hold the opinion that trans women are not women and that trans men aren't men, then why did you say it? Unless you don't understand that my being a "victim of the patriarchy" is a direct result of you holding that opinion, I can't see why you're surprised that I "misunderstood" your statement.