What sort of arsehole thinks trans people are conforming to social norms by transitioning instead of picking pretty much any easier life path like just not transitioning?

I'm sure even these arseholes don't really believe that.

There's not much objectivity around gender, but this is in particular is one of these things that's bordering on objectively wrong.

Obviously we live in and around social norms, we try to render ourselves legible through the symbols of social norms. But so does everyone. To be illegible in society is to be at risk of being disappeared from society in most cases. It's not our job to personally unpick the..

..oppressive constructs we barely survive navigating around half of the time as a population pushed to the margins by gender norms.