I've long thought about my personal stance towards transgender people. I could write a whole essay on how I feel about them but at that point, it'd require multiple spoilers.
But to put it bluntly; I don't hate em'—Slight TMI but I have a friend who's transgender. Unlike most trans people, they don't make it a big deal and actually understand they'll never be a real woman, as in, a biological one. They wish to be a physical one but understand they'll never be a biological one and won't force anyone into accepting their pronouns or delusion. They were also one of the few trans people I knew who didn't treat JK Rowling like the female Hitler, so they already have my respect on that.
Honestly, if more trans people were more honest with how they viewed themselves and didn't hide it through delusions, then maybe people would've tolerated them a bit more. Is it that hard for your average trans person to understand they'll never be a biological woman/man? That being trans is very much of a choice and isn't something they "never knew" and only cared about once the idpols began feeding through their ear canal? But bringing that up is apparently "TERF" rhetoric. Bringing that up is transphobic. Bringing that up equates to supporting trans genocide.
I could never understand transgenderism. I don't care how "deep" it is for these people. I could never pressure or guilt trip my loved ones into accepting something I'm not. I could never do that with my friends either. It's selfish, and I don't know how these people can go through such a process with little to no feeling and regard of the people they're associated with (unless their friends and close ones are also idpol-addicted hacks, which then it shouldn't be an issue for them by then).
There's nothing deep about trying so hard to imagine being something you're not. Nowadays, you don't even need to do anything to be transgender. Just say you are and you're now an oppressed minority! You can clock an online trans person by a whole mile. You can tell from the voice, you can tell from the avatar, from how they speak, from how much they view being a woman (shocking reveal; it's all through stereotypes!), from how much they retweet and quote retweet "conservative/transphobe OWNED!" tweets, from how much they jot down the latest Current Thing to fixate over.
I remember when I used to question my identity. I thought I was GNC and not once did I burst into tears, had an epiphany, or felt like an entirely new person. I just said, "I guess GNC's fitting for me" and moved on with my day. I never announced it to anyone—because who cares really—it's just a label to say "

" to and continue with life. That's another thing I could never understand.
Not entirely related to the trans topic but I could never understand people who make them being some flavor of LGBT their entire personality, what with the whole "bi disaster" and "gay/bi/lesbian/trans whatever panic" and constant reminders to everyone on how much they love genitalia and messing with others genitalia (Didn't they say we were the ones who obsessed over their genitals?). I mean, it's no different from straight women obsessing about how much they like penises or a man obsessing about how much he likes plowing vaginas. It's weird when straights do it but perfectly okay if an LGBT person does the same? It's weird in all labels, no one outweirds each other. Except maybe trans people.
Seriously, what happened to just treating your identity as a secondary, background thing to only bring up on occasion and not something to make as your whole personality? And these people wonder
why they're stereotyped and
why those stereotypes will never
not be true.