I think there are people who legitimately suffer with the mental illness that they truly believe they were born in the wrong body. The psychological term being gender dysphoria. Now I would most certainly believe the best solution to fighting that is to have the person accept the body they were born with. But my opinion is irrelevant to doctors who argue the cure are powerful drugs and insanely invasive cosmetic surgery. Funny how doctors and big pharma support the choice that gives them the most revenue but I digress.
The AGP is not dysphoria, it's essentially everything you described. My belief is if you removed AGP from the Transgender numbers it would return to what it was for centuries. The insane number spike in Trans cases we've seen in a decade cannot rationally be explained in any other way imo.
I genuinely do start to feel now for the (now possibly an even smaller minority than they were) trans people who actually are coupled in the kind of tranny shit Jim Sterling peddles. I can even, at a stretch, accept that dysphoria can be somewhat "helped" by playing as a woman despite being a man. I can accept that's the current best option because simply pumping them up with lithium isn't as effective mostly because there are genetic conditions where you end up with XXY chromosomes where it ends up fucking you up.
But when, sometime in the peak of Tumblr, the trans shit started to invade literally every subculture like a parasite that only ate fun and good times, that's when it went from simply a mental disorder that had a treatment to full on gross AGP/sexual deviants or incels that want to fuck lesbians. It became less about wanting to live, it became more about
"pride" rather than surviving with a condition they had
. It felt like a bunch of people miming cancer patients saying they're proud they have it and posing with chemo equipment that they stole from real cancer patients because "they might have it too". Anyone tries to call them out on it they'll just cry medical malpractice, "do you
WANT me to die of cancer?" they cry as they don't actually have it, they just want all that attention and actual, genuine sympathy that comes from having cancer. That's why this whole "trans genocide" shtick has been gaining steam. They want that shit. They crave that shit. They want the attention, the social power, if they can't fuck the lesbian, they'll fuck up your lives with government intervention and fascism-based laws on speech.
Back in the day when people talked about being trans they often declared they wish they never felt that way. Now people actively seek it out and the subcultures that come with it. There's going to be a small group of very insecure, very troubled kids out there that look at people like Jim and do not want anything to do with that. They have no other choice. And that's going to fuck them up worse in the long run.