Still seems like a fad to me.

Gender diverse people have existed throughout human history, in cultures around the world. the gender binary is more of a "fad" than transgender people.

You’re making it seem far more normal and common than it is.

Because ultimately, it is a normal part of the human experience. Some small percentage of people are transgender.

There should be as much or more effort put into finding out why they feel this way and how to help them get back on track.

There is. The leading theory is that they are, mentally, their gender.

We know that many of these kids are under massive pressure socially and the trans thing gives them a cause.

Absolutely not. This is COMPLETELY divorced from reality.

The social pressure to not be transgender is MASSIVE. Coming out as trans WILL lose you friends, and may lose you family as well. That is just a simple truth that transgender people accept when we come out. Not that we may lose friends, but that it is basically a certainty. We risk getting kicked out of our homes. We face discrimination in employment, healthcare, and housing. And the media stirs up false outrage about us constantly, out lives are politicised.

Being trans is hard. People aren't doing this to be trendy.

Conservatives won’t leave trans people alone?

Yes. We are a tiny portion of the population that entire political parties in multiple countries are running campaigns against.

It’s the trans movement that wants public displays of outright creepiness.

Oh I'm so sorry I would like to exist in public.

Believe me, most of us wish trans folks would just go be trans and stop the theatrics.

Then leave us alone.

You’ve got it backwards as to who the aggressors are here.

I cannot express how much I hate people with your beliefs, without getting banned. The world would be a better place without people like you in it.