AtomicTango
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I've spent more time studying this issue than I had ever wanted to, because my daughter suffers from gender dysphoria and "identifies" male. (Long story, but my wife and I have been trying to help her deal with her depression without encouraging her in any way to act on her feelings of gender dysphoria.)
I believe that ultimately most people who identify as transgender are searching for an explanation for their own unhappiness. Having a long history of depression myself, as well as many times where I've wondered if I wouldn't be happier as a woman, I know that one common tendency among depressives is rumination. We get into these cycles of thinking about how we could be happy "if only." If only I'd had a different upbringing, if only I were taller and better looking, if only I'd become a lawyer instead of an accountant, if only Elizabeth had said yes to marrying me, whatever. For trans people, it's, "If only I were the opposite sex." Rumination generally focuses on things we are powerless to change, instead of things we can actually do to improve our lives. Normally, therapists try to help depressives by teaching them to focus on what they can do in the present and what is actually possible for them, and on taking action in that direction
When it comes to the transgender/transsexual movement however, people are now being led to believe that they can, in fact, change their sex, that they really can "be" the opposite sex regardless of their biology. Initially, such people might feel great, because they believe they are finally taking action that will enable them to attain what will make them happy -- being the opposite sex. If they are successful at making others believe they are the opposite sex, they may feel better for a while.
But the problem is that biology is real. Your body really is either male or female; it is either designed to allow for fatherhood or motherhood, and that can't be changed, even if one's body can be altered to appear to be that of the opposite sex. So when people with gender dysphoria begin to take actions that they believe will allow themselves to be the opposite sex, they are ultimately setting themselves up for failure, as they will never actually be what they are pretending to be. They are constantly acting against what they truly are, sometimes fighting against the very design of their own bodies. They are left even more hopeless than they were before. There is nothing worse than believing that one's happiness depends on something one cannot control and that could never be true.
Its like I said before, a small, incredibly tiny percentage of trans people genuinely are, on a brain level, "born in the wrong body." The remaining 99.9% are delusional in their belief system or are being manipulated by trends. A massive amount of people who transition only feel happier about it for a short time and then go back to being miserable. This is because they are messed up on a psychological level and need help to overcome these issues, validating their delusion is the worst thing you can possibly do. "The reason more people are trans now is because there is more information about it and people are more accepting of it," I hear people claim. Utter bollocks. There are more trans people nowadays because more and more people suffer from mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety and more and more of these vulnerable people are being suckered into trans ideology. There are even people out there on social media who spend their time grooming young people into thinking they are trans.
Here's one thing that baffles me about the trans movement: we are told that gender is only a social construct and not a real thing, and that one's biological sex means nothing. But if gender isn't real and biological sex means nothing, why would anyone want to try to change their gender or sex? Obviously it's a real thing, and obviously it matters, or you wouldn't have any reason to change it.
These peoples ideology is completely incoherent. They claim that gender roles are a social construct yet believe tomboys actually want to be boys and that less masculine boys are really girls. Call out any of their gibbering nonsense for what it is and you get labelled a transphobe.