Isn't that just non-binary, though?
What I don't get is why people who feel this way don't recognise that they're saying gender straitjackets don't work for them, and that they have a sex but that shouldn't define who they are unless their biology has an impact on their own or other people's safety, representation or participation. Otherwise, they just want to be who they are.
Why the huge theoretical super-structure around people who are, basically, simply saying that what society says they can be based on sex is too restrictive? If it's so restrictive, why assume you must be the opposite sex - why not embrace real diversity, within your biological sex? And why isn't all this energy and campaigning going into that - a true free to be me campaign? With hate crimes defined by anyone who harms, abuses or oppresses a person based on gender expression or biological sex?
The whole thing just seems so extraneous and overloaded, quite honestly. I don't mean truly dysphoric people. That's a very painful, and thankfully rare, condition, when it persists into adult life. All for trying to support and help those rare cases. But for most - why not campaign to allow people just to be, as who they are?
It makes no sense. Painful and dangerous surgery that can make someone incontinent - very high risk. Post-mastectomy pain syndrome is never discussed either, but it's really common (due to nerve damage - breasts have a lot of them). Hormones not designed at those levels in those bodies, with risks we really don't fully understand as yet. And while those are thankfully a minority of cases, the risks to women of this nutty refusal to engage with biological fact affects a huge number of people. Why? What for? Why can't boys wear dresses if they like, and girls adore construction? Why must people insist that this should mean sex is a mistake?
It's all so... silly. Yet it wreaks absolute havoc. Carnage on the young women and girls at GIDS, if they aren't allowed to just grow up and accept themselves, as most will left to do so.
I know we know all this. I know all this. But now and then, the surreal nature of it - effectively, a bunch of undergraduate navel-gazing elevated to a state-supported religious faith - gets to me. It's like Scientologists took over and anyone objecting is deemed hateful.