how ridiculous it was to make a fuss over such a tiny number of people.
I don’t understand how people can’t see what a daft argument this is. If something is unfair and wrong and harmful then it’s OK to make a fuss whether it’s one person or a millions people. (Aside from the fact that this is affecting huge numbers of women in sports, prisons, schools, workplaces etc and the harms of transitioning are affecting huge numbers of confused young people especially girls…)
White people who publicly identify as black are very rare indeed but a big fuss is made about them because it’s rightly seen as deluded and insulting. And the stigma and honesty about it is exactly the reason huge numbers of people don’t do that.
if being “trans-race” was being celebrated and written into laws and shoved down everyone’s throats in workplace training sessions and helped you get a job or a grant and made you into the cool kid at school and was pushed as an answer to all your problems, loads of people would be doing it. Some might genuinely “identify” as a different ethnicity, many would just be confused or grifters or allow themselves to be persuaded.
If you don’t make a fuss about something that’s wrong and illogical, then you allow it to become normalised.
And I’m not talking about trans people existing - they can do what they want and perceive themselves how they want. But saying they are actually the opposite sex so should be able to take the rights and spaces of the opposite sex - no, that’s factually wrong.