The vast majority of what goes for transgenderism today is of course nothing of the kind. The basis of transgenderism is gender dysphoria, which is a psychosis; dysphoria meaning the psychic belief that some part or parts of your body that you were born with don't belong; as an example a person suffering from dysphoria might believe their left arm is a a foreign body and some have gone so far as amputing the limb. Also keep in mind that a symptom of dysphoria is clinical depression. However what passed as pseudo dysphoria today seems to fall under one of two categories. The first is depression (to date no study has shown that gender affirmation of any kind cures their depression or suicide ideations), and second a feeling of alienation which is usually directly related to social media; sometimes called the Facebook syndrome. With the Facebook syndrome, young people are led to believe that everyone else is joyful and leading a fulfilling life but them. This often combined with the symptoms of puberty which leads teenagers and young adults, experiencing the confusion and discomfort with their changing bodies, creates a natural feeling of alienation. Add to that being an adolescent in a world where social media has caused chronic alienation, results in the false belief they are experiencing something unique and there is something seriously wrong with them, and the woke zealots default diagnosis is of course gender dysphoria by proxy.
The second category is even more troublesome and that is parents that push a gender dysphoria diagnosis on their children. While I said parents, more accurately I should have said parent as the vast majority of parents that seeks gender affirmation for their children are single mothers. Further at least one study has shown the vast majority of single mothers seeing gender affirmation for their child suffer from a personality disorder*; the most common is Borderline Personality Disorder**. The point being these parents are wanting the attention that goes along with being a parent of a gender dysphoria child, a form Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy*** (something that should be of no surprise since Munchausen Syndrome by proxy is a symptom of a personality disorder). The primary problem here is the symptoms used to diagnose gender dysphoria in children are completely arbitrary and generally fall under the category on normal child behavior. Keep in mind that one of the main attributes of a child is their unending desire to please adults and their parents in particular. So significant is this desire that police investigators have to go to specialized schools to learn how to interview children. The reason the child is seeking the approval of the investigator and will agree with almost any premise if they believe that it will result win their approval. This was made remarkably clear in the McMartin preschool sexual child abuse investigation and trail in the 1980s, where the children agreed with the most outrageous accusations introduced by the investigators including underground tunnels and satanic torture chambers that existed only in the imagination of the investigators. The point being if a parent wants a child to be transgender, a child will more than likely agree with whatever premise the parent will offer up. IOW a child is just as likely to agree they are a dragon that lives in the body of a three foot tall little boy, as to agree they are a little girl with a penis, if a parent tells the child either is possible and/or the child believes it is something desirable by their parent.
*"A personality disorder is a type of mental disorder in which you have a rigid and unhealthy pattern of thinking, functioning and behaving. A person with a personality disorder has trouble perceiving and relating to situations and people. This causes significant problems and limitations in relationships, social activities, work and school."
**"People with borderline personality disorder may experience intense mood swings and feel uncertainty about how they see themselves. Their feelings for others can change quickly, and swing from extreme closeness to extreme dislike. These changing feelings can lead to unstable relationships and emotional pain...People with borderline personality disorder also tend to view things in extremes, such as all good or all bad. Their interests and values can change quickly, and they may act impulsively or recklessly."
***Munchausen by proxy -- is a psychological disorder marked by attention-seeking behavior by a caregiver through those who are in their care... The person with MSP (usually the mother) gains attention by seeking medical help for exaggerated or made-up symptoms of a child in their care. As health care providers strive to identify what's causing the child's symptoms, the deliberate actions of the parent or caretaker can often make the symptoms worse.
There is also a third category that has nothing to do with gender dysphoria, that being transgender women (men protraying themselves as women) to compete against biological women in sports activities. The vast majority of these men appear to be frustrated they are not competitive in their chosen sport when competing against fellow men, so they announce they are actually women in men's bodies and go on to dominate women's sports. In essence this is sexual misappropriation and demonstrates that progressives have never really embraced women's rights, instead they are simply anti convention to the extreme and will latch onto any belief system (outlandish or legitimate) if it challenges the status quo. IOW, progressives only advanced women's rights until it became main stream and now they've supplanted (and are excluding) women's rights with transgender rights, pretty much eliminating 100 year fight for women's rights and simply handed those hard fought for rights over to a minority of men who can't except their physical limitations as male athletes. Almost by definition woke theology was abandoned any and all suffering of biological women, because they are seen as the enemy of transgender women (men protraying themselves as women) because they represent reality, something transgender women can not tolerate, because the reality is you can never change the sex you were born as.
