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Please stop that unfounded B.S. The Philippines had a thriving trans/gender neutral culture until the Christians showed up and imposed their binary preferences.
Also I wouldn't call the family structured societies healthy (as someone coming from a very "family healthy" society). They just makes sense for a certain time and for other times, a social change might be more appropriate.
I do not understand why exploring the reasons for the prevalence of people identifying as trans has to affect their identity.
You make this argument, and while the burden of proof is on you, you refute the answer with "because it goes against your political views".
These "trans issues" have existed for thousands of years[1] and yet humanity is still thriving.
And even assuming that your argument was founded and right, trans issues would be close to the bottom of the list of priorities compared to other detrimental behavior expressed by humanity. Wars, actively destroying our own planet and environment, discrimination, over-consumption.
Not really, it's a recent cultural phenomenon: https://bprice.substack.com/p/trans-is-something-we-made-up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_transgender_histor...
FWiW I'm neither here nor there on the matter, I just happen to have read books and travelled the world for 60 odd years.
If you disagree with the author's argument, could you be more specific as to why?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23230954-600-transgen...
> It is known that the brains of males and females are different. Evidence further suggests that brain anatomy and neuronal signaling pathways are more closely aligned with a person’s perceived gender identity.
Every age has its taboos and its sacred cows and all our "enlightened" society has managed to do is obscure that immutable fact.
By comparison, it's hard to even approach a discussion about environmental pollution if it intersects with some issue regular people find personally important like birth control.
> politically intransigent because of competing economic interests
Maybe we shouldn’t just blow past this point. It is not an acceptable state of the world that the welfare of our children is even considered against the wealth extraction for a few multinational companies. Politicians that take kickbacks to allow companies to poison their water supplies is something that should never happen in a functional democracy.