The real question I have is why is the media no longer willing to lie to make trans people look good? All of the mainstream media coverage up to now has either been trans positive - frequently to the point of blatantly lying - or has omitted important info. It seems to me that the level of narrative control it takes to convince people that a mentally ill man is just a type of woman would be very difficult and expensive to maintain in the long term, especially when integrating these men into women's spaces causes so many problems. Between the bathroom rape in Virginia and this article in the UK we're seeing a huge shift in the way the media is willing to cover trans people, and I wonder if the pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, etc that have been profiting off the trans movement have decided that the risk of continuing this narrative now outweighs the benefit.

If that did happen, and the narrative shifted back to transsexualism being considered a mental illness that needs therapy and pharmaceuticals instead of transition, I'm not sure what the effect would be on the LGBT community. On the one hand, it would be a victory for us, but a large part of the community has totally invested themselves into gender ideology, and I can't imagine transsexuals who have spent tens of thousands of dollars and had their bodies surgically altered are just going to pack up and go home peacefully. What is going to happen when tens of thousands of extremely unstable people realize their friends and therapists have been lying to them and because of that they're now stuck in strange, surgically altered bodies many of them went into debt for?