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I don't fully understand the struggles of people who have gender identity questions, but I believe in respecting the basic humanity of everyone to discover and be who they are. Is that enough to be an advocate?

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Being an advocate implies action. That action can mean big stuff like lobbying and marching in protests, but it can also mean saying something when a friend is being transphobic. As long as you're willing to be engaged in whatever way is appropriate for you, you're a trans advocate :)

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Hello, I am 15 and I want to become a politician . I am very into politics . The thing is that I also want to climb up the political ladder and hopefully one day become president . Beware this is like 30-40 years from now . So my question is do I thrive to become president or give up ? I am a TWOC

I think politics is less about who you are and more about how well one's political office machinery is able to spin BS effectively. Holding high office is, in many ways, about craven showmanship. Whoever controls the beltway narrative gets to define pop culture's 2 second attention span.
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I am a young transgender. I will be transitioning this month. The thing is I am a trans girls of color. I live in Houston Texas . I'm asking for some help to me coping with the teasing/bullying I will receive. I am also just now entering high school. Next year I will be a 9th grader. Please help..

Fortunately, your covered under HISD's trans-inclusive nondiscrimination policy. In Houston, that means that trans kids *must* be able to transition and enjoy a school environment free of anti-trans harassment and bullying. Additionally, several schools have a GSAs. The Montrose Center in Houston has a queer and trans youth group that you might want to check out: http://www.hatchyouth.org/
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Why is Gia getting destroyed for pointing out that male/female/intersex isn't (and shouldn't have to be) men/women? She has never said transwomen aren't women, just not female. That is not radical. It is true. She is getting treated disgustingly.

Because asserting that the human body *is* its sex attributes is gender. There's a difference between saying that a person has XX chromosomes and saying that a body is its chromosomes. Sexing the body *is* a performance of gender. Sex attributes exist as a physical phenomena; how we contextualize that physical phenomena, apply that to human bodies, create norms, taboos and penalties around labels - both personally and within society - *is* gender. Understand, there is a difference between how you contextualize a body and that body. Your understanding only exists in your head, regardless of what combination of sex attributes a body might have.
She's getting shit because in one breath she says that the labels and usage norms around those labels we use to contextualize sex is gender but the labels and usage norms around the binary labeling system she uses to contextualize sex isn't gender.
She's appealing to essentialism. When you hear an anti-trans group assert that because our genes/chromosomes (terms usually mistakenly used interchangeably) make a body male or female, trans people therefore remain the sex they were assigned at birth, they are appealing to a constructed concept of the body. Genotype refers to the genes of a person and many TERFs appeal to this as an essential sexed substance to advance a system of behavioral norms.
Leaving aside the fact that one can go from having XY chromosomes to XX chromosomes, the appeal to genes/chromosomes as a male or female essence that if present, defines a human body in our culture, is an appeal to essentialism. The presence of this a male essence means that the human body in question is itself male and that the (now male) body and society alike must now regard it in a certain way or face certain social consequences.
When you hear an anti-trans group assert that because what is taken to be an acceptably long phallus was discovered at birth, a male sex was established and therefore cannot be changed, they are appealing to a fallaciously constructed concept of phenotype permanence. If a baby is born with a phallus - the phallus being the essence of a man - the infant is said to have been born a man. Like appeals to genotype, this essence is regarded as an ever-enduring locus from which a human body drives linguistic currency in our social system. If an AIS or trans woman has vaginoplasty, a TERF will assert that their sex phenotype has not changed because to admit this change is to admit that a body's sex attributes can change.
In biology, phenotype is expected to change via genetic and non-genetic forces during one's lifetime. This view of phenotype is frowned upon by TERFs. In the Segen's Medical Dictionary, sex reassignment is defined as, "The constellation of surgical and medical therapies intended to physically change a person from one sexual phenotype to another."
She's obtusely appealing to a standard she claims to reject: the gender binary is false; the MAAB/FAAB binary is tots real.

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On average, 1 in how many people are transgender?

Conron, K.J, et. al (2011), USA (Mass.) gathered data via phone surveys. They found a prevalence rate of 1:200 MTF. (n=28,000)
Horton, M.A. (2008), USA gathered data in 2001. Surveying SRS surgeons on how many surgeries they did each year. She found a prevalence rate of 1:750 MTF.
Conway, L. (2001), USA gathered data in 2001. Reviewing the number of surgeries performing SRS. She found a prevalence rate of 1:1500 MTF (between 1:250 - 1:2500).
Veale, J. (2008), New Zealand gathered data in 2008 by reviewing people who changed gender markers on New Zealand passport.She found a prevalence rate of 1:3,639 MTF. (n=385)
Wilson, Sharp, & Carr (1999), Scotland gathered data in 1998. Their data was based on counting the number of people with DX of Gender Dysphoria. They found a prevalence rate of 1:7,400 MTF
Bakker, van Kesteren, Gooren, & Bezemer (1993), Netherlands gathered data from 1986-1990. Their data was based on the number who received hormone therapy. They found a prevalence rate of 1:11,900 MTF
Wilson, Sharp, & Carr (1999), Scotland gathered data in 1998. They used another measurement: counting number who received hormone therapy and/or SRS . This time, they found a prevalence rate of 1:12,800 MTF
... and it goes up from there.

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Do you have any tips to releasing some of the stress from dysphoria and anxiety?

Vipassana helps for some, being more kinetic with your experience (walking, running, painting, etc) works for others.
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How do you tell if you have Gender dysphoria or are just confused?

Go to mixed trans meetings. Talk to a lot of different types of trans people because there's a lot of different ways of being trans.
Also, get a good therapist who has worked with trans folks for years, journal, take up a practice of contemplation and do a lot of hard looking at yourself and talk with safe people.
BTW, the "just confused" thing is a BS cis-phrased judgement. You are where you are, period. Instead of judging yourself and thinking that you must have an ultimate answer now, take your time and do the work of getting to know who you really are. Be kind to yourself and give yourself the support you need to know really who you really are.
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