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I don't think these are necessarily all the same people. Some of the most prominent figures on TikTok who do this sort of "trans outreach" to children, like Jeffrey Marsh, give off insane pedophile vibes, and I'm not someone who throws that word around lightly. I'm also at a loss to come up with a generous explanation for Dylan Mulvaney play-acting as a 6-year-old girl named Eloise. Certainly a lot of the gay men who dress up and call themselves trans engage in behavior around children that would never be tolerated from any other demographic, because it's such an obvious red flag for predatory intent.
But as for actual women, like schoolteachers and the like, I suspect their great overrepresentation among trans-child advocates is for the same reason the overwhelming majority of Munchausen-by-proxy cases are also women - it plays on similar tendencies towards vicarious attention-seeking in the female race.
I concur that it can’t all be the same people. Same goes for trans suicide stats—those are a useful weapon to deploy in the high-speed culture war, but the majority of left-wingers think about trans suicides roughly as much as every other suicide which doesn’t personally affect them. Not at all.
I feel like there are a lot of assumptions going into this phrase.
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