So I fully accept that there are those who genuinely believe that they were born in the wrong body (whether that's a psychological issue or not is another story).
But are trans supporters really so ignorant / naive / laissez-faire that they don't think that some men will claim to identify as women just to benefit from that? Whether it's sports, sexual assault, access to women in general... we know that some men are obsessive in their attempts to abuse women, manipulate women, succeed at the expense of women.
If all that is required is claiming to identify, no treatment or surgery or formal change, does anyone truly believe that there won't be men who will exploit that? I also notice that men who are usually very concerned about preserving their male privilege aren't at all concerned about FTM people - is that because they know their chances of ever passing well enough to benefit from male privilege are virtually non-existent? Because those raised female are unlikely to ever be assertive enough to insist on being treated exactly as biological men are?
I'm just getting increasingly angry with being unable to have a discussion about this without being labelled a bigot. I'm sick of seeing the same people who refuse to debate also being massively bigoted about other groups (personally I think transracialism, transableism etc are equally nonsensical but it's perfectly acceptable to rip those people apart with the same language that so called TERFs use about transgender people). When it gets to males insisting that their penises can be female, I just want to leave the planet.
But I digress - is this naïveté or something else? We know men exploit and manipulate. How is this different?