>>4409
Ah, but that's just it. That's not how insanity works. That's not how belief works.
I don't choose to believe that two and two make four. I can't choose to believe that two and two make five, or that I am Napoleon. Human beings do not choose to believe things. There are some people who for whatever reason choose to engage in elaborate games of make-believe, of course, and some of them want the validation of total strangers in respect to whatever weird shit they've become fixated upon. I think that isn't really belief. Probably a significant fraction of troons fall into this category: obnoxious belligerent assholes playing pretend because they've learned that it gives the power over people. But, see, this group is also delusional. They genuinely believe that hundreds of millions of total strangers are morally obligated to participate in their sick little games of let's-pretend. They genuinely believe that they have legal and moral rights to this, that society owes it to them. They're every bit as bugfuck as the people with Body Dysmorphic Disorder, who say "Doc, these legs aren't mine. I think they belong to your secretary. Could you saw my legs off above the knee, please? They're not part of who I am. I'm not a person with legs." There is a pretty clear line, by the way, from BDD to "gender dysphoria," and you don't have to be Sigmund Freud to see it.