I think that the detransitioners that the right elevates are not necessarily tools to promote detransition, but instead disrupt the pipeline to transition by waking up the right, middle, and profoundly out of touch liberals that the MSM narrative that trans medical experimentation on children and vulnerable adults is settled science, medically necessary, super rare (and therefore NBD, "why do you care so much, huh?"), and 100% effective is complete made up bullshit and always has been. [...]
I also get what you're saying. That it's ultimately smarter to take a more gradual approach in platforming detransitioners.
We can do both, we can platform poons --> TERFS (though, don't forget, they are "radical feminists"), we can also platform detransitioners and detransitioning on mass. So much so that, as you mentioned, the cultists who know of the heresy will always have it in their faces. It's far easier to dismiss detransitioning right now because, as you describe, even the right treats it with disgust and suspicion, that's not appealing to a questioning trannie. Yes, it will be "imperfect", but we aren't looking for perfection, you need numbers, not messaging or the "perfect message".
And on the numbers, I believe it was some 1% of Americans that are trans by
some definition, so, many pfp troons and poons, even then, I recall that ~15%, give or take, of transitioners detransition. Doesn't sound like much, but, considering that 1% model is only for a given year, and not absolute numbers, there could be 500k+ detransitioned in the United States alone, even conservative estimates would put it at over 100k. Pfp troons and poons would be even better, because, often, they know the ideology front to back,
without any action taken. These are perfect people to be represented and platform, they just need to be allowed to.
I wouldn't say that this analysis is moralistic, though I appreciate the complement. This is strategy, and the right's current strategy of
messaging (a usually Democrat thing by the way) is one that makes them a protest movement when it comes to combatting transgenderism.
Also, on the thing about the Cluster B and Autism, you'd be surprised at how dynamic "Autistic" people and people with like labels can be, especially when they are given a functional option, rather than just more "sides". Even just saying "well we can't do anything because DSM-5 says so" is just resigning to, well, the DSM, asssociatively the broader left, and, of course, transgenderism.