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I completely agree. My problem is with the self-ID demands of the trans movement. I don't have any problem with people who've had real persistent body dysphoria their whole lives, who are respectful of women/girls and who have no real mental issues, other than their being trans, if you consider that a mental issue. The problem is this insistence that there needs to be zero gate-keeping and that everyone who IDs as the sex opposite to what they were born with is equally legitimate. So someone who has a history of sexual assault, harassment and violence towards women, who has no actual body dysphoria or intent to change their body, and who has a history of serious mental illness is considered just as legitimate as someone who has real, persistent body dysphoria, who's fully transitioned, has no psychological conditions and is respectful to everyone. The fact that these first types of people exist and we are being forced to accept them into women's locker rooms, lesbian groups etc really harms the people who are truly trans and of course women as well. The fact that every story of the first group of people is being removed, deleted off the internet and bullied into silence, and there's a campaign to ostracize and attack anyone who talks about it, and this insistence that "this never actually happens" is going on is very similar to censorship that authoritarian regimes engage in. It's very disturbing.