4. The ideologies that frame trans people in harmful ways

 

Among the ideologies that seek to incite criticism and disgust at trans people's expense are: fundamentalist and conservative evangelical Christian beliefs, portraying gender transition as unholy; gender-critical feminism that frames trans experience as fake and performative; right-wing political ideology that uses trans people as scapegoats to attract populist support; and related ideology promoted by news media and some wealthy financial backers.

 

5. Trans lives and trans experience are not an ideology

 

Their everyday lives are problematized and stigmatised by others. Their lives are authentic and as decent as anyone else's. Predominantly trans lives are not 'ideology' or 'lifestyle choice'. Nor is transition a mental illness. A trans person's life is a state of being, and just who a person is, living, loving, and being themselves.

 

6. Transition sets people free to flourish and live as the whole of who they are

 

Far from gender identity being framed as a problem, it can be a potential and a setting free to flourish as the psychological whole of who a person really is. Trans people fly planes, teach students, work in healthcare as doctors or nurses, and in countless other roles. That is not suggestive of 'madness' as hostile people try to allege, but of leading productive and caring lives.