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There is not a single "trans activist" who wants to deliberately induce dysphoria in people. Many of us know what dysphoria feels like: why would we want to make other people suffer for no reason?

Trans activism is about giving people the ability to self-determine their gender presentation, their personal identity and their sexual characteristics. It's about liberating us (all of us, cis and trans alike) from oppressive notions of sex essentialism and medical gatekeeping. Fundamentally it's about shifting the source of truth to one's personal experience rather than societal messaging of any sort, i.e the exact opposite of what you describe.

Again, for the record: we have no interest in telling anyone with a non-normative gender presentation that they're likely trans. We want to get rid of the idea of telling people what they are in the first place. We want to replace it with the idea that people themselves are the best judges of what they are.