“Trans” encompasses transsexuals (the aforementioned people with genuine gender dysphoria), but also transvestites, autogynephiles, transgender people, non-binary people, and all the would-be victims who mistake subverting gender norms for a personality.

These people are not all the same."

This hits home. And you have outlined why I can't write "trans" without the sneer-quotes. The removal of -sexual, -gender, and -vestite from trans- seems to be a deliberate attempt to enlarge the ranks that would otherwise be only a few thousand people, those who meet the medical criteria for gender dysphoria.

Urging adolescents who wonder if their misery is explained by having the wrong gender identity, or who are gay and not ready to admit it, to hurry up and get hormones and surgery and cement themselves into those ranks for life ... before they have time to change their minds. I'm sure you're aware of the suicide rate among those who do change their minds.

I came out in Norfolk, VA in 1974 where the entire gay scene was centered on transvestites (a word we are not supposed to use anymore, claim the activists), and I have known a number of authentic transgendered people, the two have nothing to do with each other. Most transvestites in my acquaintance had some sort of character disorder. They stole from friends, almost none of them had jobs, and they only ever had one topic.

"all the would-be victims who mistake subverting gender norms for a personality."

He rings the bell.