I thought this may be the case @nightwakingmoon but I find it strange that the trans rights movement would really want to align itself with stuff that is so left-field. If you apply Poe's Law to this stuff, who can tell whether a new gender is being proposed in good faith, or just as a piss-take anyway?
Yes, and one would understand totally if, say, middle aged transwomen, were to say “leave us out of all of this, my lengthy lifetime struggles with gender dysphoria aren’t really the same as teenagers playing around with catgender identities”.
But so much of the edifice is dependent on the myth of the “trans child” that activists seem to cling to as a form of validation, even though it actually doesn’t really serve their purposes that well.
We have some quite well known middle aged professional white well off transwomen who will pop on here every so often, for example, to join in the call for puberty blockers for teenage girls with identity issues. I originally expected some of those activists to take a more moderate line, for example that young teenage girls who are attracted to gender ideology, and adult male to female transitioners, might not have the same needs or desires; and that it might be prudent and sensible to look at thee groups rather separately when it comes to what is appropriate treatment, especially for minors.
But it seems that for the most part, the overwhelming desire to be validated by the idea of transness : gender identity more generally, and the idea of “trans children” in particular, is such a powerful one that adult activists cannot resist conflating kids’ and teenagers’ fashionable fads around gender with their own.
I’m not sure that, in the end, it’s going to work as well they hope. The online xenogender bandwagon doesn’t look like a very controllable beast (beastgender? Otherkin?) to ride in on….