I think we as a society have not read own own memes in that well over a decade ago I used to see articles and pictures talking about the supposed warning signs of impending fascism (yes, I'm going there, kinda) which always included increasingly rigid sex stereotypes or gender roles, or hyper-masculinity. Its like people read that but didn't realize what it meant. Camille Paglia talks about it often. https://youtu.be/I8BRdwgPChQ?t=174 The point is not just that people are free to do what they want, which is obviously true, but what motivates it? How is it that males or females feel discomfort with what is basic biological reality?

That is part of why I don't really think talking about "transgenderism" like it is one thing, but a mix of: kids trying to escape the varying levels of hormones and the behaviors they create, kids freaked out by the changes their bodies are undergoing relative to those around them, adults trying to escape boredom or seeking attention or escape responsibility, liars, and a range of mental illnesses of which some are more dangerous to society than others. I think the term "transgender" is used to hide some of these groups, the liars and the dangerous, behind others. I avoid using it. I find the phrases "men in dresses" to cover most of the more problematic ones, and "girls trying to escape sexism" to cover the more tragic ones.

I really blame the education system, which does not educate at all but trains conformity and creates a sort of set of concentric circles of insiders who are paid attention to and celebrated for conformity (and not for really any great intellectual courage or skill), those with that courage who want to get in, those who are happy to go along to get along, and the rebels and outcasts. We not taught to build communities but to compete for better grades and better jobs. We are taught to escape our dead-end town if we're born in one, to reject ourselves and our culture and our family and neighbors, in favor of empty promises. We're not taught to serve each other with what we have, but to serve our superiors with what they value in us. We're not taught to be the best men and women we can be because that is not valued by anyone but us, if we're lucky enough to learn to value it.

That women are not valued I think is a reflection is that the ruling class no long needs to reproduce such a large labor pool and we, the surplus labor pool, pose more of a risk to them through rebellion than they care to tolerate. So, various ways of stunting a generation's reproductive capacity will solve a lot of problems for them. I read recently that the average women must produce 2.1 kids for society, ie the surplus labor pool, to reproduce itself. Replacing women with men in dresses, as they do in Iran but for homophobic reasons, and replacing teenage girls with bearded little petite "dudes" running around dressed like surprisingly well-groomed lumberjacks (the "Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate" character from the Pirate animated movie from a few years ago comes to mind), each ruining their own reproductive capacity, for one generation will put a dent in our population the builder of the Georgia Guidestones would salivate over.

As for the tragic rape I talked about, I wish trans people acknowledged material reality and did acknowledge sex is real and woman is the term of a type of body a person has. Instead I see bullshit like 'sex is a social construct', and no acknowledgement that "misgendering" is just correctly stating one's sex.

I wish to let you have the last word here if you choose. I see you are replying to like everyone who responds and that is very cool, but it is also very taxing and I do not wish to tax you further.