Originally a comment by Holms on Speaking of “dangerous misinformation”.

…an eye-watering amount of time is spent by commentators berating trans people – who make up just 1% of the population.

Here’s another of the routine mistakes, or lies by framing. The reason there is so much attention on trans people is not because we recently became afflicted with hatred or fear of them, it is because trans people, or more importantly their political cause, gained a large amount of political traction in the last ten years or so. Consider the political state things in the 90’s – barely any attention was spent on the cause of trans people because it had no real visibility. The thing that changed was not a sudden surge in animosity against that population, but a sudden surge in the success of that political movement.

And the reason we oppose said movement should be obvious: it poses a real and imminent threat to the rights of women and their progress towards parity with men. Granting people a legal instrument by which they can ‘change sex’ – in addition to being an obvious absurdity – undermines demographic data collection and hence the ability to check for trends. Encouraging the idea that woman- or manhood is opt-in directly opposes efforts to fight sex-based crime and oppression. Every trans woman granted a position, award, shortlist position, promotion etc. that was reserved for women has bumped off an actual woman and so undermines efforts to reach parity… and so on.

Our opposition to the trans / gender identity movement seems out of proportion if and only if we are considering in terms of the number of trans people. When we bear in mind the movement attacks the rights and safety of a full 50% of the population, societal opposition is far below where it should be. It should never have seen the light of day, but now that it has, it needs to be quashed.