Is it purely because we are unsure of the root cause, and only see the after effects of becoming TRP? There is constant talk about how people are in certain stages of transition when they come to TRP, but don't often talk about what it is other than how it affects us when it comes to sex, and how we use it, but the main reason people refute it is in part, the fact that we don't know how to best explain it unless we are explaining it to someone who has already adopted it, and then those who haven't just think of us as *Insert any of the slander that people throw at us