Transexuality seems to be the next progressive shouting point, I have done a little research on it when people I knew wanted to take pills and I warned them not to.
I'll first state the things I've noticed, the first is the biggest elephant in the room
1) The vast majority of transsexuals are males going to female
I've never, ever met a female to male transexual yet I've met a decent few that were male to female and they ALL share common quirks
2) All the male to female transsexuals I've met could be called 'failed men'
It's harsh, but they all performed poorly in life, they were not masculine [mainly out of a lack of trying] and failed in masculine categories, almost always being unemployed, depressed and generally taking up hobbies that depressed young males do [lots of videogames and lots of anime] which only exacerbate those issues
I think these two things are very important.
The modern western world has had a 'war' on male identity. It's very, very hard to be masculine yet women still value the masculine male just as much as before, the feminized male is not attractive in any way to the biological female so these 'failed' men are useless to society. They see how our matriarchal society lavishes privileges on the females and punishes the masculine males and as a result of depression they seek a solution through becoming female.
I've seen a few 'ideas' put forward yet every one I've seen has been refuted. The idea that M2F transgenders have a 'female' brain has, I'm fairly certain, been proven wrong. In the fact that for a start we do NOT understand the brain in any way enough depth to make this call and secondly because there have been studies that have shown no differences between many M2F trans and normal heterosexual males, whereas there have been shown differences between a Homosexual male brain and a Hetero/M2F brain in relation to certain sexual stimuli.
Secondly I don't accept that these people have depression because they're transgendered, I think they believe they are transgendered because of their life problems and they take a fetish or something similar to an obsessive level because of a lack of anything else within their lives.
Lastly the treatment makes no sense, you don't give an anorexic person weight reduction because they have an irrational obsession, why is a man who thinks they are a women not the same. They will never be happy, just like an anorexic, and the stats on post-op suicide prove it, reassignment surgery has basically no effect.
Thoughts, anons?