The left is doing harm to those with gender dysphoria but trying to normalize it rather than treating it as a mental illness.

They are literally the same thing scientifically.

They literally are not the same thing scientifically.

I think there are two things going on right now but this is just my opinion. There's gender dysphoria which is a serious mental illness. Then there is fad. I think it has just become a fad to try to get attention by saying you're something you are not.

That fad is mostly perpetuated by narcissists. Narcissists always demand that others change for them or they will be called and treated like a bad person. So if I don't believe that a man can become a woman then I am a bad person. If I don't believe there are more than 2 genders then I am a bad person. If I do not use a person's preferred pronoun then I am a bad person.

I don't feed narcissism. It is a free country and people can claim whatever they want to about themselves. Everyone has the freedom to do that. But what no one has is the right to do is to force others to participate in their fantasy. It does not makes us evil that we do not accept their fantasies. It just makes them narcissists for demanding that I change for them.

Just like trans people have the right to say whatever they want about themselves, I have the right to disagree with them. It does not mean I hate them or feel superior to them in anyway. It just means I disagree.

Nobody on the left is saying that a man can become a woman

Transgender people are not asking for special treatment and they're not even asking for attention, they just want to be left alone to live their lives. But conservatives can't stop harassing them and talking about them and accusing them of things they aren't doing, like preying on children.

If you have a problem with addressing somebody the way they want to be addressed and being respectful of other people, that's your problem. If you're a man and somebody insists on calling you a woman or calling you by the wrong name, that's disrespectful and most people wouldn't like that. And yet conservatives do that every day to transgender people. They treat them in a way that they would not want to be treated themselves. That shows a disturbing lack of empathy.