Suppose to throw my 2 cents in I am not sure how but over the past couple years playing games online I seem to attract transgender people of all stripes like flies to shit and can say that each one I know seems to have some sort of emotional, physical, or sexual trauma they suffered in the past and seem to be quite unhinged outside the whole gender dysphoria thing. The most recent one I have found was my best friend who killed himself about 8 years ago who had a little brother with a history of suicidal ideations and attempted it multiple times with my friends saving him. Their father was extremely abusive and was what fueled most of it and was him, harassment at school, and in the neighborhood that made my friend kill himself.
Got in contact with his family a few weeks ago for the first time in about 6 years to find his little brother has gone and become trans gendered which obviously freaked me out since he was highly suicidal before, the only person who saved him killed himself, and is now part of demographic that has a propensity to kill themselves. Scoured his social media and saw he entered college right before the 2016 elections, joined a local ANTIFA type group right after, started hanging around lgbt type people, then wham bam transgender.
I don't know exactly how he got to that point but after going to college for a year myself the fact he had no positive male role models, an abusive father, a depressed brother who killed himself, and Trump being elected I know they would try to twist his grief and tell him his dad abused them because he was a toxic white male, his brother killed himself because of toxic masculinity making him not be able to get help, and those mean nasty cis white males voted mean ol' Trump into office and telling him the reason he's always wanted to kill himself is because he's actually a girl on the inside.
I worry greatly for him since I have talked to trans people when they began transitioning or after and none of them seemed mentally sound with a deep self loathing, a gross misunderstanding about the mindset of the opposite sex, and quite a large ego where if you misgendered them or didnt show them enough attention they would flip out and demand you apologize and reaffirm them.
Personal anecdotes aside the biggest reasons I can not support the transgender movement but do support them seeking counseling is not why so many are coming out as trans now but who is helping facilitate this. Last time we had a big push for all this lgbt acceptance was after WWI in Germany with certain people opening gay bars, performing gender reassignment surgery, encouraging kids to explore sex and self pleasure. Many of the things happening there are happening now from the same people except there is no force to stop it. Instead of having people butcher their own bodies we need to help them conquer what it is plaguing them from their past rather then encourage the delusion further. The fact you can look at places like Sweden where they do absolutely everything they can to reaffirm trans people and cater every aspect of their culture to them and yet still they kill themselves at the same rate as they would in the US.
Each one I've meet seems miserable and I'd rather help them find a way to love themselves for who they are and realize the things they can do as they are then spiral into these delusions and end up killing themselves. I wasn't there for my best friend when he needed me and I'm terrified of leaving his brother be to be manipulated into this facade but worried if I try to help him I will only cause him more anxiety and make him kill himself as well.