I mean, that's the point; are we fine with these things? I'm certainly not. If somebody criticises these things, are they labelled a bigot? Do they face an avalanche of abuse or risk losing their job?

One of the most eye-opening things I've learned about trans issues is actually nothing to do with trans people at all. It's the point you made about how you'd give your body and reproductive system and baggage away in a heartbeat if it meant being allowed to be comfortable and not expected to look, act or sound a certain way.

I've heard lots of women, some of whom transitioned and detransitioned, some of whom didn't transition at all, say exactly this. Almost word for word. It's a point I'd never grasped having grown up as a male.

Being a teenage girl, especially a teenage girl growing up with Instagram and Youtube and online porn, and hating the expectations being placed upon you by society, seems like the most obvious, natural thing in the world. The idea that they'd "give it all away in a heartbeat" to not have to go through that makes perfect sense. And I strongly suspect it's behind the ~4000% increase in teenage girls identifying as trans, most of them, coincidentally enough, when they start to hit puberty.

But what if the problem isn't these girls' bodies, but society? What if, by normalising the idea that any girl who wants to escape the sexist pressures they face must actually be a man in the "wrong body" and should therefore have surgery and take hormones for the rest of their lives, is one of the biggest social engineering mistakes humanity has ever made?

I'm not arguing that trans people don't exist. I know personally that they do. But I also think that something else is going on in society today. I might be completely wrong, of course. My issue that it's so hard to even have a conversation about it.