I see a process as follows:
The death of 'depravity'. Most cultures and past Western cultures have viewed certain behaviour as 'depraved'. 'Depravity' is not really objective, but our reaction to, for instance, to no longer believing that, say homosexuality is a moral crime, has been, in many cases, to say that ALL sex is good.
Hence many young people are far more concerned that you might be 'kink shaming', say, people who engage in sado-masochism, than believe that there is anything wrong with sado-masochism.
Here you have for instance the case of R v Brown (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Brown), which was gay men injuring each other for s+m, and which the sort of people who write Wikipedia and hang around on Twitter and what not, think is a horrific abuse of human rights, because why shouldn't be able to fuck each other to death.
In the same vein you had some wanker put out a completely fake bullshit story in the Independent claiming that the government had 'outlawed female sexual pleasure'. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/a-long-list-of-sex-acts-just-got-banned-in-uk-porn-9897174.html
This was completely fraudulent lies by a porn advocate, as the government had not outlawed any kind of behaviour, but had merely extended the scope of existing rules (which are not encoded in legislation but case law and BBFC guidance) to on-demand porn without changing them. And in any case, porn is fake and very little female pleasure is involved. And much of what they said wasn't even banned under BBFC guidance and case law.
But anyway, the woke folk were horrified at this 'kink shaming'. How dare choking women to the brink of death be deemed obscene! It's for the woman's pleasure doncha know, at least so wrote Christopher Hooton: pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1012044965462073344/p2reRBe4_400x400.jpg
And you had lots of very woke men & women, like Molly Arthurs, who claim for sex work as part of their working class struggle, in the same vein.
Everything sexual is good, all restraints on sex are evil and wrong.
There was no shame for David Challenor in publicly 'liking' bondage rape porn on his Deviantart account, because there can be no shame in sex and there is no shame in pornography, because the only people opposed to pornography are crazy religious lunatics, and possibly some weird old feminists. So 'like' away on that naked, gagged woman, removed of body hair, tied to a tree. And not very far from that to doing the same thing to a 10-year-old girl in his attic.
Then you have lots of atheist, largely autistic men who consume pornography online from sites where every possible thing you could think of and plenty you couldn't is in a massive menu. They may start, like a certain prominent transactivist did, on 'adult baby' sites, publicly declaring that they are 14 years old and newly into the 'hobby'. None of the readers are going to say 'hey kid, you're too young for this' - nope, sex is NOT shameful, and well kids are going to read it anyway, so you shut your puritan mouth, bigot. Never mind that the next post might be a guide to making yourself permanently incontinent for fetish purposes, the important thing is you must never kink shame, it's the internet and kids have free access to it, and if they're here, well they're old enough.
And said transactivist might decide to give up being an adult baby and go elsewhere. As in this case, to My Little Pony. Which is also hugely popular with atheist autistic males. And what do you find there? Well 'Rule 34' applies, and it's more porn of course. Just involving cartoon ponies.
And of course you don't really ever give up your porn fetishes, nope you go and find more and more content. From adult baby you get to babyfur. From babyfur you get to FEMALE babyfur, since when you're actually rather a sexually unappealing overweight man, well it's much more fun to identify as a cute little puppy or whatever, and why not be female because it's all fantasy, so one sex is as good as another.
And then you meet people who tell you that actually no it's not just make-believe, you really are a woman.
To wit:
old.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/9f6pbg/is_it_just_a_fetish_for_me/ (this is a Malaysian man, Malaysia does not have an autogynephilic tradition - this is purely something picked up through the internet)
There are multiple transwomen who transitioned after moving in with the same 'furry' transwoman (poly - don't kink shame bigot). These people have MULTIPLE fetish profiles in different furry identities and identify people they are having sex with as 'mommy', 'daddy', 'sister' 'brother'.
These identities are often 100% porn-fuelled. I include sexual roleplay as transgender baby animals and babies as porn, since it's based on imagery.
I don't see that becoming a 'babyfur' is something that very many people would do naturally. But when you are on the internet, it's just a couple of clicks from being on, say, a video game website, to a whole interconnected network of 'babyfurs'. Twitter is infested with them. And it's not going to take long when you have got armies of people on online forums telling you you ARE a real woman, you're not just engaged in a porno fantasy, the fact that you fantasise being raped by a muscular stud (www.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/9ggyu0/nsfw_just_did_anal_for_the_first_time_and_managed/e65irtn/) well that's all just proof that you really ARE a woman.
And of course the biggest misogynistic bullshit of all is that while men are told that their fantasies about being anally penetrated by a big cock means that they are actually a woman, and how dare you suggest not, and oh have some jobs in a political party, and no don't you dare ask if I have a penis you disgusting TERF bigot, the same doesn't apply to women. Nope women are busy raising money to cut off their breasts, get hysterectomies, and then suffer a lifetime of severe urological complaints with their phalloplasties.
You can literally look exactly like a man, take no hormones, and have a fully-functioning penis, and you MUST be called a woman, whereas women and girls are being encouraged to mutilate themselves with hormones & surgery so they can become men (except rapists don't care what you identify as www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/15596180.Transgender_victim_glad_he_reported_rape/).
So no, when you have arrived at 'transgender' via the consumption of furry and My Little Pony porn, it's difficult to argue that you belong in women's spaces, since women and girls are socialized from birth into female spaces, which do not resemble pornography in any way.
Female spaces are not necessarily exclusively female, but the process of deciding, say, that a certain bloke can come on your girls night out, is that said bloke has appropriate boundaries and is not a creepy fucker, and not in any way based on some sort of 'gender recognition certificate' that says he is a lady despite all his behaviour screaming 'male'.
This is why trans rights activism is so aggressively misogynistic, because it is about the enforced imposition of men upon women. And it's one-way traffic, because men aren't scared of women. A transman in the gents loos is at risk, not a threat.
And no matter how many lovely transwomen there are, this is besides the point - as Jordan Peterson notes, he is willing to refer to transwomen as 'she', but if you behave like a 'he', then that's the pronoun he's going to use, and nobody can compel him to think otherwise.