Bay Area native here. I am actually quite leftist and historically I have been quite open to people who are transgendered because I've had a few close friends who are and more or less, I believed them.

Whatever this is, it's completely different. Kids spend tons and tons of time trying to figure out who they are and go through many phases of identity. To try to ideologically capture kids in the middle of their identity formation processes as a product of their own natural development (e.g., figuring out what gender is and how it works) is profoundly sick.