Didn't read the whole thing, but about half of it. Enough to see where you are going. What this doesn't address is the recent change in the numbers of transgenders. It's not a question of there being a subset of people who believe their gender is different from their sex. This has seemingly been part of the human experience for a very long time. The new issue in our current context is the rapid growth in the number of people who are using transgender ideology to explain their reality. That growth is unnatural and highly suspicious. The other problem is the technological assault on minors to propagate this ideology.

My 2¢: For the past 40 years, there has been an under-the-radar explosion in childhood sexual abuse in our society. Epstein was just the latest iteration of this phenomenon at the elite level. Before him, look up Larry King (republican politician in the 80s, not the talk-show guy). I'm sure someone else has now stepped into Epstein's role, but remains out of the limelight. And these are only the top-level abusers. From top to bottom, we have a serious disease of childhood abuse that is now very firmly rooted. Look at what porn sites are promoting, and realize this is a multi-billion dollar industry.

So there are a lot of kids now who are completely screwed. Sexual abuse in childhood has a simple consequence: the abused feels worthless and terrified. Very logically, they will decide they are not safe being who they are. Two possibilities: become someone else or suicide. Suicide rates are also rising, so some are taking this route. But if you think about it, altering one's sexual presentation is another way of "killing" the old person. John no longer exists, I am now Phillipa. Or Kate no longer exists, I am now Bill. All the things that I associate with that person of before, I can escape them. That person is dead. I am reborn, and can try again.

It's not that easy, of course. Though the old presentation is gone, all the damage done from the abuse continues to operate under the surface. Transgenders have much higher rates of psychological damage than the cis-gender population. So they can't actually escape. But the emotional pull to try is absolutely understandable.

This is a complete societal tragedy. Are all transgenders abuse victims? Probably not. But the extreme rise in numbers in the past ten years is suggestive of something more than just recognition of people who were always there. And the consequences of encouraging this behavior - which is to say buying complex medical intervention for the rest of the life of someone who has not even reached adolescence yet - are an abomination.

I find the political class using transgenders to provoke sympathy and vote-getting to be disgusting. Given the documented discrepancy in measures of self-worth (once again, transgenders are proven again and again to suffer more from all the most common psychological difficulties), to promote this behavior as though it represents virtue and human progress is evil. Those most hurt by this evil are the poor confused kids who are being put into a "system" to more often than not make them more unhappy than they were in the first place.

Acceptance of transgenders would be one thing. The promotion of this ideology is pure manipulation and evil.