The popularity of the trans movement can be explained through simple marketing. It gives its adherents something they want.
Here are the benefits. To show this isn’t just me making manure up, I’ll add evidence for each claim:
Going from a white guy to a trans woman means going from the top to the bottom of the victimhood hierarchy. If you’re dumb enough to believe in systemic racism or the patriarchy, this gives you an out and an excuse to play the victim.
Evidence: most trans and non-binary folks are white.
Sexual desirability is… well, an analogy I once heard is someone lost in the desert and someone drowning both have different opinions on the optimal amount of water. Men suffer from a lack of attention; women suffer from too much. Most men would go to extremes to be as desired as a woman.
Evidence: trans women especially go to such extreme feminine caricatures. If it were about feeling comfortable in their own skin, you’d see less cosplaying and more sweatpants.
Most folks feel as though something is wrong or off most of the time. That’s because we’re natives of the Kingdom of Heaven, not the material earth. But being in the wrong body fits. It’s an enticing explanation, except that nothing ever fixes that feeling.
Evidence: mental illness is rife among the trans community. “That’s because they’re oppressed!” Gay folks before marriage equality didn’t suffer from this level of insanity. If embracing their “real” gender fixed things, it would. Instead, they remain crazy and unhappy.
Good ol’ fashioned perversion. They do it because it gets them off.
Evidence: have you read the trans reddit groups? If not, I have to warn you – they’re creepy.
It’s an appealing package for a certain sort of person.
If only it weren’t all just dangerous and evil lies.
I’m guessing you’re not tempted by these “benefits”.
You’re probably Stoic enough to know to live with your problems, mitigating them where possible.
It probably wouldn’t occur to you to blame society for your woes.
Whether it would or not, this will make you a better version of who you are: