This is deeply offensive.
You can't be born in the wrong body. And having been a child in a family where my mother did this, and totally fucked up both of us by projecting her sexism onto us and gaslighting us into believing there was something wrong with us, I strongly suggest you think about what you are saying.
Are disabled people 'born in the wrong body?'
What is gender? Describe it without using sexist stereotypes. I am serious. This is sexism.
Why is it that certain hobbies and interests pop up all the time? Why anime? Whats the deal with that? OVER AND OVER AND OVER Again. Strangley Japanese culture is one of the most heavily gender stereotyped cultures in the world.
Then there's Cass. The Cass Review literally says that yes there is a link between abuse and trans identifying. And being autistic.
So are trans people autistic? Or are autistic kids picking up on cultural ideas, getting carried away with them - egged on by social networks online which encourage this - precisely because they are more vulnerable because they are lacking in real world social networks and normal social interactions.
Heres the difficult bit. All the people saying they are 'trans affirmative' - so where does that leave you in terms of detransitioners. The range of detransition seems to range from upwards of 50 - 90% in young adults. It takes a number of years to detransition but it is happening on a much wider scale than many are willing to admit.
WHY? This is the million dollar question we must address.
We can't say that being trans is a form of neurodiversity if we have that going on. You can't suddenly cease to be neurodivergent. The trans stuff is a by product of SOMETHING which is more likely to manifest in someone neurodiverse.
I would argue its possibly a symptom of neurodiversity and neurodiverse teens and young people are looking for something and trans seems to be a magic solution (until its suddenly not) because of the social networking aspect to it (my experience of online community bubbles is that they tend to have a life span of about 5 - 8 years before they burst and people go their separate ways in real life (I've been in social media communities since 1998).
If so many are transitioning, why are we medicalising so early?
There are HUGE issues that Cass asks about in terms of vulnerabilities, comorbidities and other needs - such as a history of trauma and abuse that are going unaddressed PRECISELY because all the focus is put onto transition and not onto looking into other parallel and agacent issues.
My biggest beef here, is that there is no ability of people who prattle on about trans-affirmative and label everything they disagree with as transphobic. There is no willingness to even consider the possibility that people raising concerns have massive questions about it all BECAUSE THEY CARE, not because they hate anyone at all. Its always framed as this.
And I say all this, because age 19 I was talking like all of this. I was saying I should have been a boy. I hated being a woman. Etc etc. Its text book. And I am sooo sooo grateful I wasn't born years later. It took me a LONG time to finally come to terms with being a woman. I think I ended up coping for years, but I only really was at peace with it in my later 30s.
This is such a complex and difficult subject. Reducing it to trans affirmative versus transphobic as a binary either or, is frankly ignorant and harmful and deeply offensive.