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Doesn't work because of the ratios of the populations. For a majority group, their interaction with the minority group is 1 in 100 interactions. For the minority group, they are interacting with the majority group 99 of 100 times.
Being mindful 1 time every 100 is not a big deal. Hearing something hurtful 99% of your day every day is a very big deal and could easily be the most difficult thing in your life.
You can disagree with the reason the minority group is feeling hurt, you can't proclaim that they aren't feeling hurt.
And with that being the situation you can only decide whether you have the empathy and belief in common humanity to do your small part in reducing the amount of hurt in the world. Or not.
If which seat you get on the bus is the most difficult thing in your life...
Was sitting in a particular seat the entirety of the civil rights movement? Is being addressed by your correct pronouns the entirety of the trans movement? Are they both smaller manifestations of much larger issues of bigotry and bias that shitty people can isolate to try and mock and trivialize the hardships that minorities and marginalized people face?
Geez, how you gonna equate civil rights with civil rights? What a stretch!
Well that's convenient timing with your eyes. Otherwise you'd have to learn to cope with being wrong.
Being misgendered constantly is a very difficult thing for trans people. Why wouldn't it be?
That problem is never the worst in someone's life, though. If they have that problem, they also have the problems of people calling the police if they use a public bathroom, or being killed on a first date... Slightly bigger problems.