more research is needed on detransition. It’s a minority, but it’s important to understand these experiences. The research that has been done suggests that the main reasons that people detransition are social- to do with a lack of acceptance (particularly by family), experiences of discrimination, failure to pass, etc.
This isn’t true.
It may also be the case that for some - a minority of people - gender can be more fluid. This is again similar to sexuality- most people have a fixed and definite sexuality- this tends to be permanent / resistant to change,. But for a small number of people sexuality is more fluid- can change with circumstance, (it doesn’t make it any less real).
But this doesn’t fit with your theory, does it?
And how do you propose to resolve the possibility that children who claim to have a subconscious thought that has somehow become conscious might not actually stick with it, but might have their bodies medicalised before that “fluidity” has a chance to change?
If “gender” is fluid, then surely no one, particularly not children, should medically transition. How do you know who is in that minority you describe?
Trans people do understand what bodies they have, they know what sex they were assigned at birth
What about all the people who don’t believe this though? Make people who claim they are female and have always been female. People who claim they will answer the census question about “sex at birth” with their current claimed sex, because the doctors made a mistake? What do you think of the ideas of these trans people? Are they wrong? Or does your theory not hold because of these people?
Other people prefer to use “sex” to describe their internal experience (subconscious sex) and see their sex as being “mis-assigned” at birth,
So do you think we should not record a newborn baby’s objectively noted physically observable sex because we don’t know what that baby’s “subconscious sex” might be?