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I can pass.
Irrelevant. If you pass, you're by definition not going to experience anti-trans violence, which is the discussion at hand.
But moreover, any time you use a firearm in self-defense, you WILL be outed to the police.
Among firearm self-defense folks, the common advice is like this:
The point is that any actual use of firearms in self-defense involves interaction with law enforcement. And they will run a background check on you, and your trans status will be revealed then. What tends to happen then is that a case that would be classified as self-defense, if committed by a straight white man, will instead be prosecuted as a homicide, because you are a trans person.
Alternately, you might find yourself forced to use the restroom of your AGAB due to a bathroom law. Now you have to out yourself to use the restroom. Do this long enough, a transphobe will assault you for being in the 'wrong' bathroom. When you use your firearm to defend yourself against assault, it is YOU who will be charged with a crime, not your attacker. Your attacker and your friends will lie, accusing you of doing perverted things in the bathroom the law requires you to use. The police will take the side of your attacker, and you will have the book thrown at you.
In practice, the 2nd amendment does not exist for minority groups. A white guy can walk down the sidewalk openly brandishing a semi-automatic rifle. A black kid will be murdered for reaching for something a cop thinks just might maybe be a weapon.
My son would find it relevant. Fuck you.
What are you talking about? Try writing more than a single flippant sentence, and maybe you can get a point across.
I own a firearm. I am not a white, straight Christian, but I could pass for one.
My son, who is trans, and who depends on his parents for support, would find it relevant.
Fuck you.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
And my point is, in any situation where you actually end up using that firearm, you are far, far less likely to be afforded the right of self-defense than someone who isn't trans or related to a trans person.
https://theappeal.org/advocates-say-brooklyn-da-is-prosecuting-transgender-people-in-self-defense-cases/
https://peopleslawoffice.com/free-cece-mcdonald-self-defense-homophobia-transphobia/
https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/az-jail-releases-transgender-woman-accused-of-assault/75-2ace8199-65b3-423b-909f-4b10db35d330
Again, whether prosecutors respect a self-defense claim largely comes down to the demographic characteristics of the person making that claim. If you use a firearm to defend your transgender son, odds are good that you will be charged with murder, even if you are indeed actually defending your son. Queer people don't get to benefit from the 2nd Amendment.
So it was relevant.