I'm still astounded at the audacity of the white cishet man who came up to me, after a talk about the history of criminalizing gender diversity and the usefulness of the idea of gender euphoria for depathologization, to question the qualifications of my expertise.
He was like, "When did you begin transition? Around 2019? That's a really short time to have expertise in this already?" I was taken off guard. I had literally started my talk listing my experience like my MA, lecturing in gender studies at a local uni, and working for a trans-focused organization in trans community every day. To challenge a trans woman who is a lecturer in gender studies married to a professor of trans studies who has published peer reviewed papers on trans studies....because you're some dude?
I bumbled something about how i was trained as a feminist anthropologist and involved in trans activism before my transition because i was taken so off guard.