There is a concerted effort by left wing activists to make trans people as visible as possible to specifically children, because they believe the same as you.
There is not.
At best a concerted effort by a handful of trans people to make themselves visible to trans children in order to provide the kind of emotional validation and honest advice that they wish they had received as children. It's an impulse I fully understand and sympathize with. My generation of queer people were catastrophically failed by the society we live in, and often by our own families, and a lot of us feel very protective of younger queer people and don't want them to experience the same thing, because noone should have to experience what we did, and certainly not what the generations before us did.
In general, queer children and young people today have resources which previous generations did not. They have the ability to form peer communities in a way previous generations did not. This terrifies a lot of homophobic and transphobic adults who like to imagine it is some kind of nefarious scheme to turn all the kids gay or trans. It isn't, it's largely driven by those kids themselves. Even those trans people who are visible are only visible because they are given eyeballs by an audience.
We flip basically every 20 years which is the dominant cultural sentiment, and we are sliding right into a decade of conservative dominance as the predictable reaction to social liberalism getting a little out of hand.
I think if you want to imagine the societal mood as flipping between progress and reaction, you sorely misunderstand where we are in the curve.
The oldest baby boomers are 75. The average life expectancy in the US is just under 79. A change is coming is coming to political landscape, but I don't think it will be the one you think, and I think unless the Republican party can pull a 9G turn in the very near future, they are at risk of sliding into temporary irrelevance. Because I don't think courting Qanon is going to pay off in any kind of long term sense.
Again, how do you not see that this is just drugging children to make them conform to social expectations?
Do you think that conforming to societal expectations is inherently a bad thing?
Think about the implications of that for one moment.
I don't think it's wrong to conform to societal expectations. I don't think it's wrong to have a job. I don't think it's wrong to have children. I don't think it's wrong to work hard at school. I don't think it's wrong to wear clothing that matches your assigned sex at birth. These are all examples of conforming to societal expectations. For many people, conforming to societal expectations is necessary for their own happiness.
All this aside, do you honestly believe a trans child, quite possibly the most hated and discriminated against group of children in existence relative to their actual number, is conforming to societal expectations?
And again, I'll say this as many times as needed, there are with certainty people with internal psychological conditions that can't be solved externally, and coping is what you can do, and I support that treatment. But for people with social and environmental issues, coping with drugs is not an appropriate response, as it does not address the problem.
Again, you are seeing a clear line between things which are not clear in reality.
If you have a person with depression, and that person is living a very unhealthy life, how do you determine whether their depression is caused by their life circumstances or whether their life circumstances are caused by depression? Depression is extremely debilitating, it makes it hard to work, it makes it hard to keep friends, it makes it hard to look after yourself, it can make you do stupid or risky things.
On the other hand, depression isn't the same thing as a normal emotion. Feeling intense pain and grief because a loved one has died is normal. It can feel impossible at the time and therapy or even medication might help that person feel better in the short term, but over time that person will start to feel better on their own and adapt to their circumstances. When a person isn't able to adapt to their circumstances, when their resilience has broken down so much that they just keep being hurt by tiny things and the way they feel never improves, that's become an internal psychological problem.
Long term depression changes how you think. It takes away the happiness in everything you do. It makes the world hollow and joyless and painful to live in. There are few things more irritating, if you've experienced that, than having someone suggest some facetious, easy thing which they think will make depressed people happy. I promise you that it won't.
Here's a good litmus test. Before suggesting any activity or environmental change you think will help someone with depression, think about how it would sound if you suggested the same thing to someone who had just lost someone very close to them and was experiencing intense grief.
"Aspects of myself do not match up with the social expectations of my sex" is not a medical or psychological issue, it is a social issue, giving kids drugs is not a solution to that problem.
Those aren't mutually exclusive categories. Social-psychology is a thing. Clinical psychology is a thing.
