@augustus As far as I can tell, trannyism is a subset of Body Dysmorphic Disorder with the psychosocial-sexual aspects pointed towards an exciting new target.

Before, say, ten years ago, we treated Body Dysmorphic Disorder with scorn and pity, because it was limited to crazy celebrities and crazy rich people who fucked up their bodies and faces in a drive to look pretty. Their underlying issue with their own bodies was a perceived imperfection and displeasure, and so they fixed it with surgical methods. The thing that makes it a disorder is that you can't fix it with surgical methods, only behavioral therapy, which is why all of the victims of BDD either killed themselves, turned into hideous plastic mummies, or had successful psychotherapy.

Then in comes the homosexual/bisexual movement and they pick up a T to become LGBT. Suddenly people who wanted to be the opposite sex has protection under being just like homosexuals and therefore they're really just "normal." Hence, if they're normal, then any sort of disorder is right out. Even though trannies exhibit BDD symptoms to a tee, save for focusing it towards a goal of looking like the opposite sex rather than simply looking like the prettiest perfect human. Then it's taboo to give them any sort of behavioral therapy other than "there there, you go zhir, have some hormones" which is why, unsurprisingly, they are all becoming the classic BDD victims of the 90s: Hideous plastic mummies, or suicide victims. The third option of convincing them that they have a mental disorder and taking steps to alleviate it is just gone now.

To complicate matters, we now have the media and all these progressive types simultaneously pushing the image that trans people are special, privileged, amazing, and social heroes, whilst simultaneously pushing the narrative that men are horrendous, shitty, miserable, hateful beings. Tada, tranny rates skyrocket, and the overwhelming majority of those are MtF. Not only that, but they have suicide rates 5-7 times higher than normal populations and AIDS rates 30 times higher.

And instead of trying to tackle their underlying BDD, we ignore it, say that their dysphoria is because they don't have the right genitals, say that their depression is because of hateful white men instead of the sensation of having a phantom dick and having to dilate forever, and say that anyone who attacks the central dogma of LGBT is a hateful bigot.

These people need help, and the compassion of coddling ideologues is killing them.