On how to handle transphobic trolls online

Some tips on how to handle transphobic haters in social media.

Below you will find a snapshot of some comments from my blog's comment inbox. There are hundreds of these entries made by a mentally unstable individual who thinks that teaching me about trans issues will make a huge difference.

(I think  she overestimates the importance of this blog, but let us leave that aside for the moment.)

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She (I am pretty sure this is a TERF) clearly believes that if I accepted her simplistic understanding of sex and gender, I would see that she is right. 

I would stop defending trans people and join her in her war against "gender ideology". She is the smart one. I am the one misled.

Trolling is not an invitation to a real discussion

If you have ever tried to engage in a discussion about trans issues with a transphobic troll, you will know that it leads nowhere. 

You will make a serious argument based on facts,  research and real life experience and they will present some fringe pseudoscience or fake statistics to beat you. 

You will prove that that the transphobic paper has been falsified by more reliable experts and they will bring up another. If that does not help, they will present hearsay, anecdotes and myths as facts.