it kinda just gets shortened to "trans" in general and all mashed together into one group
kinda like how everyone's got it in their head that gender and sex are the same
puritanical values made 'sex' awkward to say so when 'gender' came along with a fairly close meaning lots of people jumped at the chance to ditch the awkward connotation. Nowadays it also carries with it an added +15 virtue signal points, too.
well that's where things fall apart, fighting your nature to conform to social norms is a straight path to depression and suicide
Some people it is seemingly hardwired, in others 'gay shit' is adopted later on, but once adopted it can become hardwired real easy.
again chicken and egg
there are some that such surgeries can help, but they are also the sort that are in a really fuckin' bad mental state, next stop in front of the train sorta state of mind
How that portion of people that the surgeries can 'help' is increasing in number is more alarmism about society pushing people into a bad mental state than it is about society pushing people to modify their bodies. To my mind.
Fucking humans are weird.
a massive part of why people take such exception to this stuff with kids is that kids don't have a nature or a knowledge of nature. Humans can change their nature until their death, significant life outlook changes, all of those things. I don't disagree that people can adopt and hardwire as their nature any number of things as well as, or in addition to, what seems to be their basic predisposition.
It's gone pretty far from "be yourself" to "be yourself, as I tell you to be". it's incredible.
sure, i'll give that there are some people who can be "helped" by surgery or drugs. Well, I don't know. Does cutting your tits off really matter about who you are? I guess, maybe not everybody can do push ups and bench press until they lose their tits. It all falls back to the rigid gender norms that they feel must be reinforced. There is no reason a chick with tits can't wear a suit and not birth kids and work a high level office job with a short hair cut. There is this idea that you must look a certain way to feel a certain way or be a certain thing. Somehow they believe that they cannot be their image of themselves without also losing the tits.
otherwise, there is the incredibly tiny percent of the population who believes they aren't complete until they chop off their arm, or hand. people who really do benefit from surgery are in that same group. It is such an incredibly small anomaly of people, I can't justify any need to have it be any sort of conversation or expectation of being regular. There are people who feel compelled to eat dirt, there just aren't many, and we certainly don't have national affirmation groups for them.
I do agree that the increase in surgery and drug pushes, as well as shit like the sports groups saying you MUST decide by age 12, is pushing far more people into a terrible mental state than the physical body damage.
and yes, I feel the same way about cosmetic surgery for fake tits and calf implants