Its fucking maddening isn't it? The rank dishonesty and ridiculously inflammatory language trotted out to push the most extreme and insane outcomes with basically no brakes so that they can make it possible for a 12 year old who likely barely knows what they are getting into can fuck with their own hormones and slice up their body in pursuit of some bizarre and endlessly ill defined idea of 'true gender'.
I hope I live to see this all end up with the same associations as people pushing lobotomies half a century ago or people making pro-ana groups more recently.
It's so weird to have already lived through:
80s - acceptance of pop stars and celebrities cross-dressing or being androgynous (Boy George, Annie Lennox), still regarded as their birth sex
90s - acceptance of regular people cross-dressing on a weekend or as a fetish (if some burly truck driver wants to wear heels and be called Stacey on a weekend, it's a bit salacious but nobody really cares), still regarded as their birth sex
00s - full time trannies wearily tolerated, mainly out of politeness (see Little Britain's "I'm a Lady" sketches), but not given access to women's spaces, still regarded as their birth sex
10s - sudden drive to redefine the term "woman", elimination of sex based rights, women-only prisons/bathrooms/sports/awards, demands to be regarded as whatever sex they want based on absolutely nothing (not even a psych evaluation), called a murderer of you disagree even slightly from this dogma.
I mean, fuck me I'm not that old, but that's a lot of change to live through already. I can only hope that the pendulum swings back equally fast.