"In a roundabout way you are agreeing with me. We are both saying that the choice (yes) of trans is in response to pain more than the origin of pain"

No, I don't agree with this. First, I don't think being trans is a choice. Especially in the case of people with gender dysphoria, but even, as I explained, in the case of some people who *don't* have gender dysphoria.

And while, yes, unhappy people grasp for escapes, being confused about yourself is not the same as choosing to join a trend. Because you haven't chosen to join it, you have, at a point in your life when you're particularly vulnerable, been indoctrinated into it.

The people who were drawn into gender ideology as teenagers and then detransitioned for example, often after causing irreparable damage to their bodies, all talk about how deeply convinced they were that they were trans. They explain how they mistook their confusion and mental health issues for gender dysphoria, because medical professionals are too afraid or stupid to do their jobs properly.

The children who said "I'm a boy/girl" at a very young age, and then were ushered down a path of reality denial and medication by the adults who were supposed to protect them. If you're six years old and are told that you are literally a girl because you like "girl things" that becomes "reality" for you. Even though, as you know, most such children desist if allowed to go through puberty normally.

These people are victims of what could broadly be called brainwashing, not people jumping on a bandwagon. You're describing a slice of the trans community with your position, but there are many others, I suspect a majority, who are completely different.