@financialcareerstuff I'm in disagreement on several points but perhaps the most pressing is "gender dysphoria", what we have is an ever-changing diagnosis, from gender identity disorder to gender dysphoria via an occasional flirtation with body dysmorphia, & over the last couple of years we've forged on into the splendidly woolly realm of mere "gender incongruence".
These are not proper diagnoses & there are no stable diagnostic criteria for their application. They are activist-led creations whose purpose is to afford the greatest possible number of people access to the widest array of body mods.
The vast majority of men who seek such modifications are motivated either by transvestic fetishism - these tend to opt for breast implants or (often temporary or on/ off) oestrgen & progesterone prescription to induce gynaecomastia, & procedures like trachael shaves & facial feminisation surgeries, they rarely if ever choose vaginoplasty. The majority of men seeking remodelling of their genitals are motivated by the paraphilia, autogynephilia. Always remember that paraphilias cluster &, by virtue of being paraphilias rather than mild kinks, are indicators of above average risk of sexual offending. It is not difficult at all for an AGP male robbed of his sex drive by castration to acquire sufficient testosterone to reawaken his libido.
Those two groups leave you with very few people to whom the lable "true trans" might be applied but among them we find the growing cohorts of detransitioners - the kids & adults dealing with internalised homophobia &/or the explicit homophobia of orgs like Mermaids & the rubes they've "trained", the neurodivergent kids like me, baffled by gender stereotypes & made to feel like imposters in our own sex by the reification of those stereotypes, the sexually abused seeking escape from the habitus of their victimisation, those suffering from misdiagnosed mania & other perfectly diagnosable, treatable, MH conditions who found themselves referred to gender clinics as soon as they mentioned gender issues to their GP but who, instead of the compassionate professionalism they ought to be able to expect, are left in the clutches of narrowly trained, overworked clinicians, with a profound ideological committment to the unquestioning acceptance & encouragement of cross-sex identification.
I once, like you, thought there was such a thing as true trans, for more than 20 years I thought it included me. I now believe neither of those things. The more layers of slogans, wishful thinking & obfuscation one peels away, the more it's apparent that there's nothing at the centre.
And always, always the unanswered question - if gender is distinct from sex &, per Butler, a mere performance, why should changing one's gender entail any change to one's bureaucratic sex marker, or afford access to any provisions made for the opposite sex?
(BTW, since you invoked Segregation, it's worth pointing out that there was often only one set of lavatories provided at work or in public buildings for Black people under that regime, & for all the same reasons of privacy, dignity & safety that motivate women to object to mixed sex lavatories now, Black women objected then.)
Edited for dyslexia, some may remain.