Well... there shouldn't be trans people. No, I'm not literally Hitler and want the people who are trans gone, the phenomenon shouldn't be a thing. Gender dysphoria can and should be treated by helping people accept who and what they are, and what they are is male from beginning to the end, or female from beginning to end. People cannot ever switch, change, "transition", and there is no "in-between".

Cue the trans activists screaming about how you're literally committing genocide. It's unfortunate that the suggestion that we should instead focus on teaching people to feel comfortable in their own bodies and not feel obligated to conform to stereotypical gender roles is seen as a wildly subversive statement by them. Apparently irreversible surgical intervention in the pursuit of the unattainable is still better to them.

Their shutting down of nuanced, thoughtful discussion and their slandering of experts in the field as "gatekeepers" are fearfully effective displays of anti-intellectualism. It's striking how similar it is to how my hero, Joycelyn Elders, was run out of her position as the Surgeon General of the United States for simply saying the truth about a variety of issues related to drugs, abortion, sex education, and despite the fact that she was objectively on the right side of history in regards to them she was kicked out of her position for not sufficiently self-censoring as a way of pandering to conservatives. Just look at her responses throughout this interview:

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/30/magazine/joycelyn-elders.html

In December, Elders remarked that drug legalization was worth studying -- an opinion that the White House immediately distanced itself from, but one that Elders reiterated in January. "Bill Clinton didn't pick me to be a rubber stamp for him," she says in her soft Southern voice. "If that was all he wanted, he would have left me in Arkansas."

And of course, Bill Clinton, in a complete bastard move, kicked her out after her mundane, sensible comments about masturbation (""I think that [masturbation] is part of human sexuality, and perhaps it should be taught") were seen as deeply controversial. It's nonsense.

The same thing is happening in the trans activism movement in the sense that they're demonizing sensible messaging and expert opinion by attempting to portray it as wildly controversial and subversive (literal genocide, literal violence, etc).

We are all in her position, trying desperately to sound the alarm bells even if it comes at personal cost, because to not do so is unthinkable. None of us should have to worry about losing our jobs or being turned into a societal pariah for standing up against homophobia, yet here we are... :/