Not all of them. Not by a long shot. There are a lot of completely cool trans folk who consider this new emphasis in the culture on trans rights to be a perversion of the established medical processes involved in treating real gender dysphoria, something that's very, very rare but, nevertheless, requires treatment. The thing is, there's now this thing called "affirmative treatment" where everyone simply accepts that a person is the gender they claim, without question. This has substantially derailed the entire medical community that used to actually treat gender dysphoria.
This "Accept the patient's diagnosis of their condition" mantra is insane. It allows anyone to game the system.
The video you posted is an example of gaming the system in sports. But it's in other places, too, and often given the power of the state to enforce it. For example, in California and (iirc) Oregon, the state has decided you are whatever gender you say you are. Your word is law on the subject, no matter what. The result? Literally hundreds of men in prison have suddenly become trans women and have started being transferred to women's prisons. It's a complete cluster.
There are plenty of fine, sensible lgbt folk who understand that all this, this "gender dysphoria is fashionable" thing, is wrong and that there will be a backlash. They are not looking forward to it.
The problem is gender dysphoria is now no longer in the DSM because of politicalization of the topic.
Ben-- Ive copy and pasted your post to social media. I've removed your name as I do not want you to suffer any backlash. If you want to be credited by name I can certainly do that. It's too good not to share outside of this forum.
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