ripples101
I'm glad you agree with some of the sentiment here because transgenderism seems to have taken a detour from its original premise.
There was a transwomen on here a few weeks ago who was in her 70s. She said how surprised she was in 2004 to be told that she could now legally become a woman. She was pleased, but surprised.
She maintained that when she first came out, decades ago, there were only a few transsexuals around (a couple of hundred).
Like you, she was dismayed at the turn of events that has seen transgenderism now include a whole raft of people with a more dubious motive than both her and you.
I first heard about it in terms of the law about three years ago. This was when it was becoming clear that the law was being exploited. The second I heard a man can legally change his sex, the implications to women were startlingly obvious.
Men and women do have a completely different experience both to each other and, more importantly, of each other.
The fact that not one single person had enough power to put the brakes on the legislation, speaks volumes.
From what I understand it was implemented largely on the basis of the legality surrounding trans marriage, civil partnerships, etc. The parallel campaigning for gay marriage seems to be something that was used as leverage. There appears to be little objection on the grounds of what it might mean for women.
It's no surprise that the disagreements to the trans ideology are coming from women. It's no surprise that the slur TERF is aimed explicitly at women. It's really, really no surprise (to women) that most of the online debates with women degenerate into threats of violence and sexual abuse.
The ideology affects women as a class, more than anyone else. It is unequivocally at the expense of women.
I am sure you can understand how the more salacious aspects of the implications are unwelcome to women. Most people, men and women, understand this.
But for women, particularly, this is just more of the same old. Men (and it is mostly men) exploiting women for their own gain. Although now it is legally sanctioned and culturally accepted. Objections are over ruled and the entire production is celebrated - all in the name of progression.