I used to be very sympathetic towards trans people years ago (and still kind of am in a way). The idea that people had a psychological condition where their own body led to crippling anxiety/depression I think would make anyone feel bad for them. Hormone treatment and surgery seemed like something acceptable to me for someone who could barely function with their current body. But it seems as if it grows more acceptable to be trans it's become a social pathology. Also the argument for trans has become less medical and, like most leftist things, become an argument for negation of societal norms.
The argument now seems to be that sex and gender are separate and gender is an entirely social construct. 'Male' and 'female' are arbitrary distinctions and NOT a product of continuous observation of how the male and female sex actually act. But since we live in a society with these arbitrary norms trans people have to conform to them if they don't particularly like the gender they were assigned with.
My own questions with this line of thought are:
A) Since when do people on the left advocate for conforming to societal norms rather than destroying them? People on the left never suggested gays should just hide it and pretend to be straight or that fat people should just lose weight to avoid being shamed. It's always change society to conform to the individual and not the other way around.
B) Where did the idea of male and female even find their basis in reality? It must be based on biological sex or otherwise why is it consistently applied to people with certain physiological compositions?
C) Would you even want to abolish gender? Wouldn't that make the world a far less interesting place to live in? You couldn't identify as straight or gay (I wonder what would happen if you asked a gender critical person whether you were gay or not without giving away how you identify, how would they respond?). You wouldn't be able to have any ideal of man or woman to aspire to. It would just be a gray homogenization of humanity.
I don't think the modern argument for trans, if I portrayed it correctly, can hold up under examination. The most offensive thing about most trans to me, aside from their appearance, is the destruction of something that I think is fundamentally very beautiful, the idea of man and woman. Which, I suppose is sentimental, but I find the complimentary nature of male and female to be a beautiful thing and the desire to destroy it as evil.
Maybe this is unpopular on the farms, but I personally don't care if transgenders go into their transitioned gender's bathrooms, as long as they make some effort to pass and mind their own business. Johnathan Yaniv is not an example of this. However, most transgender people I know only use single bathrooms since they tend to not want to bother other people anyways.
I personally believe transgenderism is a biological imbalance, since studies have shown that their brain structure is more like their desired sex's from an early age. Whether they decide they want to transition or not is no concern of me, as long as they act like a normal person. This is becoming an unpopular opinion on Twitter as well, but I still believe transgenders require dysphoria. There's been an increased amount of fakebois on there screeching about how their quest to become a skinny anime twink is valid.
I think the desire to keep bathrooms segregated from trans people tends to come down more to politics. You know, if you let them have the bathroom they'll demand something more extreme, which is probable. But even so, we've already seen people use their trans identity to go into female only areas to live out sexual fantasies. I forget their name, but I'm reminded about the troon who was obsessed with periods and going into bathrooms and chatting about it or something. As trans becomes more accepted I'm sure this kind of thing will happen more often.