Janet Mock vs Piers Morgan -- a Different View

So, by now we've all heard the story. Janet Mock goes on Piers Morgan to plug her new book. Morgan conducts the interview, they shake hands, and then Mock begins to complain about the interview, saying to the Huff Post "He really just called me a man to my face." Mock and Morgan traded some nasty tweets, then she went back for a second interview, this time live, that left both host and guest unhappy.

Mock's primary complaint seems to be that Morgan, instead of focusing on her life as a successful transgendered woman--she is an editor at people.com and a respected activist and advocate for the transgendered community--he honed in almost entirely on the fact that until 18 she was physically a boy.  Indeed, if you watch the first interview, you see the sub-title "Was a boy until age 18" underlying parts of the video.

My problem is two-fold.  First, she accuses Morgan of concentrating on the fact that she used to be physically a boy while pushing a book entitled "Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More" which, though I haven't read it, would seem to be about that very thing, that she used to be a boy.  In fact, if she hadn't once been physically male, she wouldn't have had much to write about.  After all, reading about the path to womanhood of a born-woman is hardly groundbreaking, must-read literature.  The fact that she used to be a boy is probably the reason she got the publishing deal in the first place.

Second, I am getting a bit tired of people in our "community" biting the hand that feeds them.  Morgan complains--and rightly so--that he is on our side, and yet she jumps all over him.  What?   There aren't enough real bigots around that she has to manufacture one?  Was that Duck Dynasty asshole unavailable for an interview?  We have to stop slamming our allies and concentrate on our real enemies.

But hey: what do I know? You can make up your own minds.  Here are the two interviews, courtesy of the fabulous YouTube.com.