In the nicest possible way I&#x27;d say you&#x27;re missing the point. To what degree gender is a social construct vs actually having non-minimal differences in the brain depending on your chromosomes is largely settled (IMO), the real question is just what is going on with gender dysphoria. Is it (and do we treat it as) a mental illness? (The DSM-V calls it a disorder.) What are the causes? Is it just attention-seeking? Or is it just an aspect of personality like preferring the color blue over red, only with much more important social implications? Is it changeable? Does it go away? Is the &quot;gender-affirmative&quot; approach the right one, where we apparently need to up-heave societal norms to make these people &quot;comfortable&quot;, whatever that entails? Should such up-heaving be funded by the tax payer? Can we make them &quot;comfortable&quot; while not making other people &quot;uncomfortable&quot;? These and many others are the questions that matter. I don&#x27;t have a strong opinion in the matter other than I know non-passable trans people creep me out on a sub-rational level (so I just avoid them, like spiders). I&#x27;d like to ignore the problem and let the scientists and doctors solve it. But when scientists and doctors are busy purging other scientists and doctors instead of doing science and medicine I guess I&#x27;d rather have a decree from the Supreme Court that settles things (at least temporarily) one way or another for society as a whole. If they pick wrong, the scientists that believe so better start coming up with good evidence, since apparently what&#x27;s presently available is either not good enough to actually be convincing one way or another or it&#x27;s possible to become a practitioner in the field without a firm grasp of the current state of evidence.<p>Most commenters here won&#x27;t read the submitted article. I admit I only skimmed it, for it is long, but what I did read was also good. It addresses some of these questions and more. This sort of reporting on purges rarely happens.