There are tons of disanalogies though. Should we hurt people and be biased against people who have "transitioned" and treat them worse? No, of course not. Should we openly encourage and normalize it like we have homosexuality? No i don't think so. The cases are just so different.

I've got views people will probably hate, but oh well. Trans acceptance and encouragement though is absolutely anti-feminist and I'm not okay with that. You shouldn't have to feel like less of a man because you like to do things and present yourself in a way that was traditionally considered "womanly", and vice versa. Trans acceptance just reinforces traditional gender roles and caricatures of men and women when i think the real goal should make "being a woman" or "being a man" a very small piece of somebody's life. Males and females should be able to define their own values and shape their lives in whatever ways they see fit, and not simply select from two (or more) amalgams of values, expectations, roles etc., that go into the social constructs of "man" or "woman." It's not that there shouldn't be men or women anymore, like we should aim for a "post gender" society or something, but I think a fine goal would be for one's gender to play a very small role in one's life. It shouldn't determine much at all, if you don't want it to.

I'm sorry but when a man tells me that he "feels like a woman" I can't for the life of me imagine what that claim would be based on, and I'm sorry but I just don't believe it. How do you claim to be a woman when you've never been one before, or had any of the relevant experience, expectations, relationships, prejudices, and biology that go into one's being a woman? What do you think it takes to be a woman? Long hair, no body hair, bigger boobs, a higher pitched voice, and girls' nights out? You can do all those things and still be a man, or even just be gender neutral, accept that you have a cock and do whatever the fuck you want. Don't claim to be a woman though because you're not. Sorry.

Granted: you should be allowed to do whatever you want to make yourself feel comfortable in your own body, including modify it, but I really don't think castrating yourself and having your gender reassigned should be something actively encouraged and normalized. It's a vastly different issue than homosexuality, but unfortunately people just blindly accept the analogy and call any dissenting views bigoted or backwards. That's why these conversations are so toxic and it's just easier to accept the progressive view because the stakes are too high to disagree. I'm sure I'll be branded a bigot for "doubting" people's "gender identities" but I don't know what the fuck "identifying as X" is supposed to even mean, and I'm sick of being forced to respect something I just don't understand.

I'm happy to have my mind changed on the topic, but this is really just how I see things.