I must disagree with
@Rabidcolombian .
First of all, it's hard (if not impossible) to say what percent of the population thinks what. Obviously there are some people on the right who are not ever going to accept any kind of trans theory because their religion/morality won't allow it. And obviously there are some people on the left who believe in transubstantiation: that these are True and Honest Women.
But among the remainder, I don't think there are widespread doubts because I don't think a lot of people are educated about the issue. There is an encouragement on the part of TRAs to go along to get along, and "educate yourself" invariably means "read pro-TRA shit and ignore the haters."
I think a lot of this has to do with the conflation between gay rights and trans rights. Like a lot of the same people who are radically opposed to trans rights also think fags need to repent. And on the far left, there's so much opprobrium against "conversion therapy" that "pray the gay away" and "maybe you should do some self-work before you decide to cut your dick off" are the same thing.
Like I'm 100% in favor of people presenting however they want as long as they aren't hurting anyone, and I get the sense that that's a popular attitude. But kids can't be trusted not to hurt themselves, and that's why they don't have the same rights as adults. And I feel like there's organized suppression of discussion in popular media and elsewhere (cough, Reddit, cough) about the horror that these kids go through, and the lack of informed consent about physical side effects and complications. For adults, I can sit here and think they made a bad choice, but getting a Raiders tat is also a bad choice, so blocking the ability of adults to make bad choices is a more contentious area for me.
Like one of the things about Jazz that really gets me is that his siblings project an image of health and well-being. They might not have perfect features, but they look well-fed, clear-eyed, active, and reasonably happy, and that's attractive.
Jazz, on the other hand, looks like he comes from a different, less affluent family. I live in an impoverished area of the US and people here tend to be larger than they are in affluent areas, and it's often larger in a really flabby, toneless way. There's no energy or sparkle; people look dull. (Funny powerlevel: I was in the hospital yesterday and the ER doc said I looked healthy. I'm on the larger side, but I got what she meant. She also said she didn't want to give me estrogen because it makes people nauseous.)
There are many horrors enumerated in this thread and elsewhere about the stink ditch, the lack of sex drive, and so forth, and far be it for me to fat-shame anyone, but Jazz looks like someone you'd want to start screening for the 'beetus at age 30, and start screening for heart problems at age 40. Plus the bone and joint problems caused by Lupron and whatever cancer stew all the hormones cause. It's obvious that he eats his feelings, but a normal boy that age should be able to pack away a thousand or more extra calories a day and burn it off through activity and metabolism. I wouldn't say that he lacks sparkle, but check back with me after a few years of chronic pain. Odds of him getting a disability tugboat are really high.
I get that body dysmorphia, the "wrong puberty", and so forth are upsetting for these kids, but it seems like it would be easier to contend with the occasional moment of dissonance than it would be to go through life with hormone issues, a badly healing surgical site, no sex drive, strange scars, probable bulimia, anxiety, depression, and a body that looks like it might not make it to age 50, PLUS body dysmorphia.
But back to my original point, thinking critically about any of this is not encouraged, so we're supposed to think of Jazz as a True and Honest Woman who has a few health issues, instead of a man who was experimented on in a way Hitler would smile upon.
