Empathy! How the fudge does it work?

[Content Note: Ciscentrism transphobia. Part Two within an ongoing series.]Going for a page in the Saxby Chambliss Playbook (the WORST playbook!), Congressman Paul Broun (R-GA) described his opposition to insurance-covered trans* health care by saying he isn't trans* and does not require it, why should other people?"I'd rather not purchase a sex change operation," Broun stated a week ago inside a speech against Obamacare, "I am uninterested. I love as being a boy." So trans males! The most concise way I'm able to think about to underline everything that's wrong with Broun's fundamental misunderstanding of gender identity and shifting.This cavernous insufficient empathy, this colossally unaware centering of self and universalizing of a person's own perspective and experience, does not even make as being a decent individual possible, believe it or not a good public servant inside a representative democracy. Diverse constituencies don't send individuals to D.C. to legislate based on personal need. That this type of huge number of chosen reps don't appear to know this fundamental principle is definitely an tremendously more monumental problem given the possible lack of diversity in Congress along multiple axes of marginalization.