Have to admit to being blind to many of the things you've pointed out here. It is only recently when confronted with this trans ideology that I've come to realize what jerks most of us males are toward females.
It is kind of strange. I would assume that many of the folks posting here are either materialists or non-religious. But they seem to think our material bodies have very little to say on what it is to be a man or a woman. Apparently it is some kind of male or female stuff that is inside someone that determines sex. Some kind of sexual woo-woo stuff.
What I find most interesting (and also most frustrating) is that in a different context, I think a great many posters would take the opposite view. Most of us are atheists, and most of us do not believe in the existence of a soul. Most of us do not ascribe to the concept of mind-body duality. The mind and the body are one, and are inextricably linked. There is not special extra essence that is not part of our material bodies.
But on this topic, mind-body duality is back on the table. And things that are known science, such as the existence of a binary sex among mammals, gets cast as something much more complicated and magically other. The volume of things that need to be revisioned and redefined in order to make a good chunk of the transgender ideology work is astonishing.
That said, however, let me be very very clear. I am not in any way "anti-trans". Some people have gender dysphoria, and those people experience very real distress. I have a lot of sympathy for them. For those who cannot come to terms with their sexed bodies through therapy and counseling, physical and social transitioning is probably the best option available.
My objection is to the current dogma that a person who is transgender is in some meaningful way a member of the opposite sex. Transmen are not men, they are female humans who live as men. Transwomen are not women, they are male humans who live as women. Beyond that I'm extremely skeptical of self-identification, and I oppose self-id alone granting access to protection under the law. A person who says magic words shouldn't automatically be granted access to areas where females are naked or vulnerable, they shouldn't automatically be granted the right to compete against females in sports, and they shouldn't be placed in female prisons. I am open to some case by case considerations... but as a blanket entitlement, I don't think that self-declarations are sufficient to place females at risk. Additionally, I do not support the prescribing of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors without having had significant psychiatric evaluation beforehand. I understand that for some very few children, they experience dysphoria from a very young age, and it is very persistent. But a lot of the kids who have been given blockers and cross-sex hormones over the last decade, they aren't experiencing clinical dysphoria - they are experiencing the same kind of discomfort with our developing bodies and the changing expectations of society that all of us go through during puberty.
