No doubt I will get a few emails from people who think I am demonizing people with gender dysphoria for writing about this, but that is not my intent.
People who are genuinely gender dysphoric and not just enjoying erotic Autogynephilia (getting sexually aroused by imagining themselves to be a female and playing out that fantasy) suffer from a potentially debilitating mental illness, and they do need treatment. Not medical treatment in most cases, but serious psychiatric or psychological care.
As with depression or anxiety, “just get over it” is not helpful advice.
But there is a new class of violent trans activism, and it is waaaayyyyy out of control. Mass murders, sexual assaults, vandalism, and threats of or actual use of violence have become quite common, and are far outside the normal parameters of violent behavior in other population…
