T. A. Gardner
Serial Thread Killer
Being gay doesn't involve using cosmetic surgery (elective, unnecessary surgery) and genital mutilation. It doesn't involve forcing other people to accept you wanting to wear clothes of the opposite gender, use personally chosen pronouns like some little kid might make up. Nor does it require continuous use of multiple drugs to make up for the lack of your body producing them because you are the wrong sex biologically.I am not taking a position on the trans issue but will point a few facts you ignore.
First is that 'being gay' used to be considered a "mental illness" too. Second is that "suicide rates" amongst gays, especially gay children, used to be significantly higher.
So what was core to that coming down?
A significant part, if not the largest was society acceptance of gay people as normal and not considering them 'mentally ill' and society over all stop focusing hate at them in media, comedy and society over all.
I think it is undeniably intuitive that if from the youngest ages of a person developing their identity others are telling them they are mentally ill, abominations, should not exist and attacking them the way the right attacks trans kids and people, that their suicide rates would be crazy high.
Indulging children in their fantasies should only go so far. It shouldn't involve surgery, drugs, and counselling to reinforce those fantasies.
