I note, as to the point, nobody is asking you to "want" trans people. Nobody is talking about you and the trans people being discussed are not objects or currency to be spent.
But I also note that the point of this article is that millions of trans people are succumbing to a mass mental disease. I'm guessing that this guy would have figured that the idea that 'the negro' was intellectually capable of participating in a sophisticated 'modern society' was also a fantasy. (People said this.)
It is no different. Black people were oppressed. We fixed it. Trans people are oppressed. We should fix that, whatever the motivation.
"Surgically created sex changes and cross-dressing boys are as fake as a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill or a cubic zirconia. Yet, if we are to be politically correct, we should call a cubic zirconia a diamond and accept a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill as legal tender. We don’t want the zirconia or the counterfeit currency to feel sad because we call them fake."
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