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Also . . . not to over-pathologize, but there are valid mental health questions that are both pressing and taboo:

  • compelling overlap of Bipolar and Cluster B Personality Disorder traits with transitioners and within trans activist orgs as social entities

  • questions about flavor-of-the-month over-diagnoses like Gender Dysphoria that serve as pathways to transitioning (pay-for-play and state-healthcare-supported)

  • disproportionate influence of TRA (trans rights activists) on approval of grants and research funding in academia -- mostly the social sciences, but creeping into STEM

  • serious Hippocratic and malpractice concerns about trans medical intervention (puberty blockers, hormones) for adolescents

IMO this is the scary part, where trans activism morphs from consenting-adult-liberties into drivers of research, clinical practice, and government policy. All of which is happening.