So people with cluster B personality disorders manipulating an army of people with ASD traits and others who lack critical thinking skills or just tend to be easily manipulated…
I really think that the sooner we recognise gender identity as a religious belief and give it the same rights and protections that we give other religious beliefs, no more, no less, the better.
Most of the problems we are facing with it come down to the fact that it is a faith position but it is being pushed by institutions which should know better as irrefutable, settled fact as if we have made a major scientific discovery about the nature of humanity and the world more generally about which there can be no doubt.
Many of us don’t believe that trans identities (having a soul of one sex in the body of the other sex) are real in the same way that atheists don’t believe that deities are real. We don’t want to hurt or disadvantage anyone who believes in gender identity, we just don’t want to be forced to share that belief or have that belief impact on us unnecessarily. Currently we are in the process of restructuring society to favour this one religious belief over all others and over not believing at all, including its core tenet of what we would normally call out as child mutilation. We recognise breast ironing and FGM for what they are. This new religious belief obscures almost identical practices.