I would guess that this includes gender variant trans people and people who want to transition.
But we really don’t know what the “natural number” of transitioning people would be without repression.
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As with everything, it ain’t binary. Even cis/trans is not binary. It’s all clouds and boxes. In everything. But if the only option supplied is cis or trans, “well, I’m certainly not cis, so…”
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Yes, but if we assume this trend continues linearly, eventually it will be much more…50%, 100%, even 200%. Can society afford to risk mathematics breaking down like that? 
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Yes. But when they say schools are “transing” kids - they mean medical transition.
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I understand how it is heard, but what upsets them is the support for social transitioning. The respecting of pronouns and names of choice, nongender conforming presentation, etc. in their minds are absolutely equivalent to “sending your beautiful child to school and they come home with a brutal surgery…” I know you know this, just clarifying for the audience.
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I think this is a fabulous idea and I hope someone picks it up:
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100% would watch!
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There was a movie in the early 2000s called Normal starring Tom Wilkinson as a trans woman transitioning in middle age. For its time, it wasn’t a horrible movie, leaving aside the gender miscasting. Anyway, there was a funny scene in that movie where Wilkinson’s character was adjusting to HRT, and her teen daughter had just started menstruating, and her wife was going through menopause, all at the same time. The movie probably hasn’t aged well, but it seemed pretty enlightened at the time. Of course, the bar was low. All you had to do was not make the trans woman a serial killer.
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That’s great! Transgender people need more recognition.
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If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend “I Saw the TV Glow”. It’s the best trans film I’ve ever seen. I’m going to rent “The People’s Joker” soon, as I’ve heard good things about that as well.
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Wikipedia says that’s a “horror drama”. Is it actually a horror movie? Because I don’t really like horror movies.
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It’s a psychological “horror” film, that’s written and directed by a trans woman. The movie is basically an “egg” allegory. I cried throughout the film because I lived the horror that it depicts and was able to escape.
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Fred Durst is in the cast. Interesting. Looks like it’s on Max. I have a subscription. I may check it out, but if it starts to squick me out, which horror often does, I’m bailing.
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Fred Durst is great in it, but I don’t think he say’s a word. There are no jump scares or anything. It really is a psychological horror about identity.
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(I know i am way behind on this but…)
Finally got around to catching the Dr. Who special part 1. A trans person playing a trans character whose trans-ness (well, at least non-binary-ness) was a key element. And with Tennent back as The Doctor, i suppose i should have expected that, but i did not. My youngest says part 2 isn’t as good, but if David Tennent is in it, it can’t be too bad.
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I’m looking forward to the day when we have trans characters played by trans actors and the trans-ness isn’t a key element of the plot. Like…just have it be “here’s a person, they’re trans” just like “here’s a person, they have blue eyes”. I actually think that Dr. Who special got pretty close to that. Donna’s daughter being trans was clear, and acknowledged, and then mostly the plot just went on about other things.
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Here’s a good description of the type of “horror” it is.
A debate surrounding the film is its deserving to be categorised as a horror, and though it maintains a trickle of eeriness throughout, it is certainly like none of the other horror films A24 have distributed in recent years. More sombre than scary, the few scares of I Saw the TV Glow are intentionally gauche, more evocative of 90s classics like Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) or The Craft (1996), rather than, say, Talk to Me (2022). Set in the 90s and 2000s and with heavy referencing of the period typical pop culture that defined their childhood, I Saw the TV Glow rekindles and reflects on Schoenbrun’s life prior to transitioning. Like a mature TV show you watched as a kid but only now understand the meaning of once you’re old enough, looking back on your childhood as a trans adult can be both painful and healing. In a speech prior to the film’s premier at Sundance, Schoenbrun recalls first writing I Saw the TV Glow, at the time around three months on hormones and “dealing with the overwhelming calamity of blowing up your life in such a way that you have to when you come out.” Questioning the boundaries of home and family, Schoenbrun’s script portrays the confusion, euphoria and crushing weight of facing your truth and the escapes we seek out in our youth, whether yet aware of our identities or not.
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