There's no thesis, we're just talking. I don't understand why I got called names and hostile responses. Meh. The second part of your reply is great, I figured

There's no thesis, we're just talking. I don't understand why I got called names and hostile responses. Meh. The second part of your reply is great, I figured this would be the place to ask somebody who knows about it. I wish you'd have started and ended with that. I'm one of those very nerds who never cared about who wants to sleep with whom. I must note that on occasion trans techies are aggressively hostile to none trans techies and I don't appreciate it anymore than you do when it flows the other way.