I am not unsympathetic towards "trans" people. As a kid I admired - no, I was envious of girls because they get to wear pretty clothes and can make their way through the world just by wearing cute outfits and smiling sweetly - at least while they are young and beautiful. I wished to be a girl instead of a boy, and used to imagine what it would be like.

But **reality* kept spoiling my fun and forced me to accept things as they are, and helped me put aside jealousy and envy of temporary and external things like youth and beauty and appreciate what lasts and what matters most in life.

I believe "trans" people are people like I was - who could not let got of the envy of they opposite gender; who wished so badly to have and be what they wished that they went to great lengths - beyond cross-dressing and the like, to the point of mutilating themselves to "achieve" their desired traits. The loneliness, the desperation, and then the inevitability of ageing out of the beauty and strength that once meant so much to them, leaving them empty and right back where they started - envious, lonely, and rudderless. And angry that the rest of society didn't go along with their delusion, and trying to use legislation, courts, and anything else they can to legitimize the fantasy they could never let go of. I am not unsympathetic. But insisting that everyone should embrace their private delusion and treat them as though they were in fact truly women or men as they wished, is unjust, unfair, unnatural, and unrealistic.

Yes, "trans" people need help. But admitting delusional people into shelters for the most vulnerable of people - abused women is unfair to to the true (cis) women who need protection.