[hn_throwaway_99]

I am not British, so I can't quite comment as well on the media landscape there, but I see tons of articles about transgender issues, with lots of commentary by trans people, in mainstream American media. A few simple examples:

1. https://www.newsweek.com/trans-air-force-officer-trump-ban-1...

2. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/opinion/transgender...

3. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/trangende...

And your last paragraph about claiming people are debating about forcing certain people to, as you put it, "again and again defend their own existence", is what I find so frustrating, because this is absolutely NOT what is going on in this instance. Yes, there are a tons of examples where this DOES happen, but lumping all honest debate about difficult problems (say, how does one determine if someone is eligible to compete in women's-only sports) as "defending your own existence" is just silencing all views that don't 100% agree with you.