Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on Debunk first then mock.

I’d really like to see a peer-reviewed phylogeny of trans categories, etc.! Transgenderism isn’t a single thing, and it hasn’t been adequately studied (since doing so would be “literal violence”…). Is “gender dysphoria” affecting males and females actually two distinct phenomena with separate causes? What about age at onset, and its prevalence among homosexuals? How frequently is “transgenderism” a misdiagnosis of autism or depression, and how can we correct this? What about social contagion, parental influence, sexual fetishism? That would be an interesting and valuable study. It seems to me that at this point, “gender dysphoria” is a wastebasket_diagnosis. [Peter N. comment]

This sort of study would dismantle transgenderism altogether, undoing all the institutional capture work that the forced-teaming of the LGBTQetc “community”/Trans Umbrella has let them get away with. Examination is anathema. Even setting aside the basic dishonesty of the foundational claims that humans can a) be born into the “wrong” body, and b) change sex, any scrutiny of “gender identity” or “transness” is a threat to the entire gender confection. Not only does it whittle away the numbers of the “community” sub-demographic by sub-demographic, it dissipates the obscuring smokescreen of “transness” that is supposed to unify and solidify this congeries of disparate and irreconcilable conditions and behaviours.

Let’s look at Peter N’s research proposal questions in more detail:

Is “gender dysphoria” affecting males and females actually two distinct phenomena with separate causes? I’ve come to believe that they are. Males seem to want to break into “womanhood” and take it over. Females are trying to escape it. If they’re not the same thing, you shouldn’t call them the same thing.

What about age at onset, and its prevalence among homosexuals?

I don’t believe there are any “trans kids.” They are made, not born. I think it’s parents trying to “trans away the gay”. If that wasn’t happening, how many “trans kids” would grow out of it? My understanding is that it would be most of them. Desistance is something that trans activists should be able to explain. The same with detransitioning?

How frequently is “transgenderism” a misdiagnosis of autism or depression, and how can we correct this? Handwaving away comorbidities doesn’t solve them; transing them doesn’t treat them, or make them go away. Imposing transness on these people does not make them trans.

What about social contagion, parental influence, sexual fetishism? Each of these is a separate “gateway” into transness. Why lump them together? What does any of them have to do with the supposed “born in the wrong body” explanation? If it can be “induced”, how can it be innate?

Any one of these questions threatens to bring down the whole house of cards. But we’re not allowed to ask them. We’re not supposed to poke and prod. We’re supposed to just accept the soundness of all of this and use these ideas as a foundation upon which to base medical practice and legal structures, among other things. Who in their right mind would just take their word for it, and build anything on top of this miasmic swamp of delusional bullshit? And once cracks started to appear, who wouldn’t start looking a little more carefully at the soundness of the building site and the quality of construction?

“It seems to me that at this point, “gender dysphoria” is a wastebasket_diagnosis.”

Well, you know what they say; garbage in, garbage out.