One man in 30,000, one woman in 100,000 is gender dysphoric. That would be about 5000 people nationwide. OK, giving some wiggle because the scientific criteria are very strict, let's allow the number to be ten times that. Around 50,000.

Right now the activists are claiming that something like 500-1000 the scientific number are "trans."

NUH-uh.

And they bare their teeth and snarl in rage at any suggestion that this is a medical condition. They assert that "trans" is part of normal human variation, like homosexuality and lefthandedness. Despite the fact that many dysphoric people feel excruciatingly uncomfortable in their own skins and that a lot of men (trigger alert) yearn to be castrated, the thought of which for other men, even the toughest men, evokes horror.

This is as much a disorder as Body Integrity Identity Disorder, those who want healthy limbs amputated. The latter is fortunately less common, but some of these people will lay a leg across the tracks before an oncoming train.

We should be compassionate and understanding as we can for those who are suffering from GID, but for godssake, we should not be encouraging people who don't have it ... to believe they do.