Is it fair for TS to critisize men for not taking on their battle?
Obviously the entire LGB community faces some level of discrimination/hate from the general public. Progress has been made by the group as a whole, but tolerance for TS is lower than the rest of the group. I think this is the case for two reasons.
First, there is a disagreement in placing TS in any one of the boxes L, G, or B. I think many if not most people consider TS and their partners to be gay men, while TS themselves and many others consider them to not be men. Second, and probably more importantly, I think genetic women are hostile against TS because they feel like TS are encroaching on their territory, like TS are trying to "steal" their men. Kind of like many black women pissed/threatened/offended when black men date outside of their race. I say this based on reading comments of YouTube clips where TS are talking about things like acceptance, gender identification etc. Men are never riled up in these conversations, but the people getting riled up are always women. I don't think society will accept TS as women until genetic females do, since women have influence over what men do.
Anyway, I digress.
The point of this thread is that many TS seem to expect men to jump straight into this battle. I do not think it is fair to place men in a position where their entire life will change based fighting this battle. The situation is not at all similar to a gay guy who likes men coming out. When he comes out, there is a large gay community to go to, not to mention gays are more accepted in society, as mentioned earlier. A dude that likes TS doesn't have that luxury. TS actually have a community they can go to. TS admirers (most) don't.
Of course there are men who will come out, but everyone's situation is different, and it is not fair to judge someone based on their decision to do it or not. Just my $0.02..
BTW. I don't think it's wrong to exclude men from you personal life based on the decision. I can understand how you don't want to feel like someones "dirty little secret" or that they are ashamed of you. Although I don't really think it is being ashamed so much as preserving one's current lifestyle.