Trans people are not an agenda
The only people who seek to push a trans agenda are those who seek to eradicate trans people from the public sphere. Trans people have long advocated for a normalising of trans identities, ranging from those who assimilate to those who unashamedly refuse to blend it. Both ends of the spectrum are valid and need to be normalised, yet this is still not an agenda; it is simply the understanding that society needs to be a pluralistic place in which all identities and expressions of self are valid. It is the eradication of this plurality that is the agenda, as it explicitly seeks to stop people from being themselves for the sake of a small minority who feel uncomfortable.
Historically self-expression has been policed, with each new generation pushing the boundaries of what has culturally been understood as normal and in good taste. Coco Chanelle’s trousers were seen as taboo breaking precisely because women’s attire was coded around skirts and dresses; to be in trousers was to usurp male dominance and power. Bikinis bust the myth that women should be covered to be chaste, with modern hijab enforcement as an attempt to entrench modesty without the consent of the women it enforces them on. Trans people are policed precisely because they shatter many of the cultural taboos around bodies and clothing, which is why gender critical voices attempt to both rigidly police women’s bodies and defame trans…
