Ah yes forgot about bisexuals. I know a girl who has explored but in her home country she would never have done it. I think she still fears what her family would think. TBH i don't know if she has landed on a position what she is because of it and you can't really talk about it with her because she finds it awkward and sometimes is in denial. 

The next thing I will say will probably sound shallow, but I think it is a good way to put things into perspective for people that fear the unknown and ho might be reading. I don't know why to this day a straight person would care if someone from their same gender is gay. There is no logical reason for it. Let's be honest dating has a lot of luck element to it. Sure trying hard gets you more dates but to find a person you can click with is real hard and all about being at the right place at the right time, especially if you have to live with them for many year/life if you get married. If your competition narrows because people are born gay, how is that a bad thing? Better odds for you finding the right person for you. In cultures where you mentioned oppression happens, gay people marry the opposite sex are not happy and in turn the straight person struggles also to find anyone suitable.  If those places allowed those people to explore their sexuality, than your mr/mrs right might not have been taken into an unexpected relationship that their partner is lying to them about what they really want and putting on a fake smile like the relationship is strong as ever. Now i won't pretend I haven't been upset to find out some women are gay. But not because i find it disgusting but because when I was single I was like damn would have been fun to get to know her at an intimate level.

Sure seems to me like the people calling transracialism BS today are the type of folks who will be dubbed bigots by the next generation. Progressive movements don't stop when you come of age, after all: they "progress."

The reason why it bothers so many people is really simple. As with most social issues the underlying cause are gender stereotypes. The good old masculinity and femininity. Children are raised with the belief that the genital that you are born with mandates your behavior and that everything that doesn't adhere to the stereotypes is weird and shameful. Being intimate with anything but your designated opposite gender does not fall neatly into masculine or feminine tropes. People are being bullied and harassed for being a "sissy" or a "butch". That is toxic genderism and is basically indistinguishable from racism. People are getting shamed for what they are born with, are treated like sub humans if they don't confine themselves into the ready made definitions of what is "proper".

Homosexuals and bisexuals have been fighting for their right of self expression for millennia and then some asshats come along who not only strongly support gender stereotypes but actively try to force them on everyone. Gender stereotypes are in their nature restrictive and become oppressive when they are socially enforced. Guess who is the loudest voice today trying to enforce gender sterotypes, correct, it's the TQ+ crowd who are not strong enough to fight for equality and rather use the existing stereotypes to fit their needs. So instead of crushing labels, they try to force everyone into theirs to make themselves feel "normal", except that their "normal" is completely contrived and against the nature of humans, or all living beings.

Gender dysphoria is real. Race is a social construct (and a sloppy one at that). Not the same thing.

To resume it in a few words: Bias. It's been very evident for a while now that all these movements that defend such bullshits are not really interested in said bullshit, but rather the power and/or influence that comes with it, simply because when it comes to shove, they choose/defend the cases that are more alligned with their tastes, rather to defend the concept in itself. People are so worried of being pollitically correct(though people are starting to care less about this, and fast), that they end up giving people too much leeway when it comes to these subjects, not wanting to "offend" said people. Hence where the power/influence comes from.

But yeah, all these movements about social justice have largely been really hypocritical.

We are a collection of atoms as old as the universe itself

Who are we to decide what is valid or not in term of identifying as some other race/culture/gender/sex/whatever.
The gates were opened, now we are having the flood and there is no stop to it. If we accept someone that is born a woman can identify as a man we should not be judgmental of other people doing the same thing with other cultural/biological aspects.

Holy shit!  Looks who back.

This really is all that needs to be said here.

Race is a social construct, one that changes over time and between cultures. Gender dysphoria is a well-documented thing that’s been seen in multiple cultures over multiple time periods, and there’s oodles of scientific evidence demonstrating that gender reassignment surgeries typically help trans people significantly.

I’d encourage anyone with a serious interest in this to just google this stuff and read up on what reputable scientific sources say on the subject.

I think that as a general rule, people should be as truthful as possible. It might depend on whether the lie would cause any harm. Using a celebrity may not have been the best example. To use a better one, if I was becoming romantically involved with a person who was mtf trans and they told me they were born a woman, that is deceptive. It is depriving me of information that might influence my decision on how to proceed with the relationship.

I'm not saying it's not ok for her to say "I am a woman". I am fine with her saying that, because that is what she feels is true, and I don't have any clear objective way to determine whether she's right or not. However, if she says "I was born with a vagina" that is something we can, at least in theory, objectively determine.

Nobody has to agree with anyone on how they see themselves. If you think Terry Crews is Chinese, then you're entitled to that opinion, weird as it may be. You can disagree with a trans person on what their gender is. But, there is a difference between disagreeing with someone, and believing they are lying, which is the difference between these cases, and why the comparison is bullshit.