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> gives a really bad reputation people group us.

I think you are possibly grouping them together. Some fat dude in drag singing 70s songs at a gay bar is not bothering anyone. But the person grouping people together inappropriately is at fault, not the guy with the falsies singing that his boots were made for walking or that he will survive.

> and they're fucking repulsive disgusting sex pest made for tv scapegoat perverts

Well, some of them, sure, but then you've got that trans person that was waggling an erection at the Wi Spa here. You will get people that abuse any type of protected status to shield themselves from criticism, it's just the nature of it. You get Rachel Dolezal pretending to be black or Elizabeth Warren using "high cheekbones" to claim she's a native to justify cushy appointments at the university, and likewise a pedophile will say he's trans in order to enter a place where little girls bathe so that he can show them his dick.

It's impossible to have a rule that isn't exploited: if there is a benefit to self-identifying as something, there will, 100% of the time, be someone that will take advantage of it. Unlike race where Dolezal's white-ass parents being surprised to find out that their daughter is black and is the president of a chapter of the NAACP or Warren taking a DNA test that demonstrates that she's whiter than the vast majority of whites, there's nothing objectively verifiable about identifying as trans, and nobody's gonna fund "truscum"/"medicalist" research that might produce a heuristic. Because it's completely self-identified, there will be people exploiting this as long as it conveys any sort of benefit that they might want and be willing to make the tradeoff to get.

I think, you know, people ought to be free to do whatever they want with their own bodies, but this kind of thing is exactly the reason that it's a bad idea to produce a protected class of people, and the harder some group ties itself to maintaining that protected status, the more people are going to tie the abuses of that status to everyone in the group. I'm not saying it's moral/immoral or correct/incorrect for them to do so, but I am saying they'll do so.