Still thinking about that ask I just sent to Nami and I think its honestly really incredible how easy it is for people to relate to one another on a very personal and deeply rooted struggle even if they come from completely different backgrounds.
Like, I am nearly the sole straight/cis guy in my friend group and yet I've related to them more than people who objectively were raised in the exact same conditions I was, and that honestly has taught me a lot.
There's this societal illusion that people from different cultures, with a different ethnicity, who have different sexual preferences, or identify a different way, are inherently separate from you and "there's things you wouldn't understand" because of that, and since that's what we're led to believe we kinda just all stay in out lanes. And if I'm being honest here, I think that's a load of horseradish.
The concept of human thought and emotion far precedes any superficial differences we have to each other, and while there are struggles individual to a certain group that we may not be able to see the same way (IE, my trans friends in regards to identity), the basic concept of identity is one we all struggle with in our own unique ways, so even if I cant say I feel the same, I can still understand where their coming from and do my best to try and help them, it isn't impossible!
And I think it really sucks that society feels like it tries to corral us all into isolated pens sometimes, and force us into the line of thinking that we have to be this certain way, or just typecast us by artificial labels that carry no value, its all.. fake, for lack of a better term, we are all human beings with individual struggles, who are unified in our ability to think and share those thoughts and feelings, thoughts that have basically never changed since our inception.
...Sorry I just had to get that one out of my system, TL:DR categorizing people by superficial traits about them is kinda cringe and I'm glad to have learnt there's things to relate to about everybody.