They are absolutely not anti-religious, this search for the sacred Trans child is deeply religious, maybe more totemistic or animist or gnostic than monotheistic, but deeply religious all the same.

Social Justice is an ideology founded on the worship of the pain of "the marginalized", which is why when a child utters the magical incantation ("I was born in the wrong body") the true believers drop to their knees and proclaim the child sacred and infallible.

We are not dealing w an absence of religious needs, beliefs or impulses, these have just been shifted into the realm of the political.