[Lenneth]

When the author says transgender is new and a product of western queer culture, it demonstrates that they have allowed their desire for acceptance to override academic or journalistic integrity. I'm sorry they have had such a difficult time finding acceptance, but to take self recrimination as the only option is false and harmful to the advancement of the acceptance they claim to espouse.
I'm certain they do represent a certain subset of personailties. It just isn't a subset that I belong to, or would want to belong to.

Yes that stood out to me as well, their are mountains of historical references of it existing in ancient times, so saying it is even remotely new is a load of nonsense.

The internet truly is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it allows the transfer of unorthodox opinions, subverting the "gatekeepers" of scientific enquiry - which is very good indeed, if the gatekeepers have been corrupted by politics - but on the other hand, media such as twitter allow strident activists to shut down debate, such as the killing off of valid alternative theories such as BBL investigated.

I seriously believe that the "baby has been thrown out with the bathwater".

Maybe there were some deficiencies with BBL's theories - what new scientific theories do not have deficiencies? But they have effectively been trashed because scientists come under pressure from their grant-givers, the politicians, to accommodate niche pressure groups, to the detriment of those who no longer have their own category and get lumped into others.

Agreed, The Internet is a double edged sword, and the politicizing of almost everything along with the popularization of trolling has completely thrown out the baby with the bath water with a lot of things.

as I recently said to someone else online on the subject, very little real scientific research has been done into the root cause of gender disphoria, why is down to multiple outside influences as well as various societally and religiously imposed stigmas.