Brilliant comment on r/detrans lays out exactly how transgenderism lays the groundwork for transhumanism:
"People are introduced to a perspective of being able to view a healthy body as innately flawed & unfitting for a human mind. That the 'reason' for such is wrapped up in gender dogma & magical pink and blue brains is, just the key, that allows folk to feel like 'good persons' for subscribing to this belief system, as acceptance is manufactured within the social zeitgeist of the idea that choosing to reject one's perfectly healthy, perfectly functional body is a constructive form of self-actualization."
There's an unbelievable amount of money in enhancement technologies. Tying these technologies to a medicalized human identity—the way transgenderism does—helps solve a multi-billion dollar problem:
How do you encourage healthy people to see their bodies in terms of what radical enhancement technologies can provide? How do you obligate medical systems to provide these 'services'? How do you pressure societies to fund enhancement technologies?
And how do you sideline potential opposition to this radical reconception of what it means to be human? Calling us “hateful bigots" or "TERFs" is a much more effective way to silence critics than calling us Luddites or laggards or leaving any space for legitimate dissent.
That's it. It's the old "Who frames the argument, wins the argument." Anti-scientific, irrational ideas are framed as 'loving, inclusive and tolerant,' while any questions are framed as 'hateful, bigoted and oppressive.'
It's a bullying, undemocratic tactic that cannot be allowed to work.
This makes me think of why over-pathologization, over-diagnosing and self-diagnosing are so troublesome. The focus is on the individual rather than society. Instead of looking at societal values and practices that may be harmful, we create an industry that profits off the idea that if you just "fix yourself", you'll be happier.