Yes, because it's a selfish movement and damages acceptance of the rest of us in LGB. We are allowed to criticize it. Have you ever thought, people were tired of people making everything, their whole personalities, etc, about gender and how marginalized they are? Living in one of the most prosperous parts of the world. THAT is why we criticize it.

Speak for yourself, literally. I'm in that "rest of us in LGB".

It's actually quite the contrary, the rest of the LGB looks at gay transphobes as the hypocrites and useful idiots they are.

Trans ideology harms young gays and lesbians through the risk of irreversible medical interventions. Many gay boys are effeminate, and trans ideology would pressure them into the belief that they're not actually males, and sterilize themselves. Similarly, trans ideology pressures tomboyish girls to not identify as female, remove their breasts, or worse.

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If that is the cause, how does it explain both the sex ratio shift and the rapid increase in referrals starting from around 2011-2012 onwards? There were gender clinics across Europe reporting similar demographic changes in pediatric referrals. This precedes the political developments in the US that you mentioned.