Addendum addendum.

One of the less interesting takes that I've heard on the new trans population is from my one (art school) colleague who wears women's clothes.

First, he's said that conversations haven't evolved for a decade, and an editorial now reads like an editorial from a decade ago, and that's not normal with a social movement, and it's clear that some major buy-in isn't happening and isn't going to happen, with the goals and current approaches.

Second, he's more recently said that he's tired of the biology of it all and how intersex and theories of its origin come up all the time and people say you must believe this or you must believe that, and can't you just support people from anti-trans discrimination without having to accept this or that theory having to do with science.

With that last point, I'm not so sure, since some sort of innateness is what everything from minors taking hormones to "transition the kids and don't tell the parents" policies are based on, and to the extent that this is some new cultural overlay that's loosely or not at all necessarily rooted in something innate, those other claims become more and more untenable.

Really, discussion of biological inputs becomes unavoidable, and I don't think the theories of the new trans population come out on top...  They've hitched themselves to something that's scientifically whack, and that never ends well.