BS in Human Physiology and Biochemistry. I was born and identify as one would expect.

I had a trans cousin back in the 80's, underwent SRS, now deceased. Never stopped studying the subject.

Brain scans, PET scans, biochem analysis of brain activity, chromosomes, whatever, doesn't change my position. Ideologues don't care about science, we've seen that wayyyyy too many times throughout our history. And legislation that's pushed by ideologues has a tendency to never be enacted, or reversed the next time the party flips.

We're going to settle, eventually and hopefully, into a general acceptance of trans people in society who will share the same discrimination protections as for race/sexual orientation, with carve outs for situations like sports and some public accommodations where natal males, be they trans or be they criminals wishing to avail themselves of self-ID access, put natal women at risk. There is a common ground out there that solves all the *practical* issues of accommodation 100%; we just have to prevent ideological activists on both sides from preventing that common ground from being enacted.

If we do not find that common ground, both sociologically and legally, then we're going to spend the forseeably future arguing about it, similar to how the abortion debate never got "settled", even though the population was telegraphing through multiple polls that they would be good with a compromise.

You switched into the legal landscape in your second to last paragraph. There is no reason to limit information about transgenderism to parents and children, as long as the latter is done in an age appropriate way. Same true for medical care, although I am concerned about the removal of healthy functioning organs from children too young to understand the long term ramifications. These are examples of where ideological activism moves too far to one extreme.

Hope that helps.