I pointed that out to Sockma and didn't get a good answer. Why if you really believe that wouldn't you first go after people who post memes or who are concerned about the bathrooms? Or at least both?This tangent also makes one wonder why @sockma is bothering me if he really thinks the solution is to make transphobes stop being transphobic. If he were actually sincere, he'd would be telling dad4, chelsea (who is apparently highly repressed and fixated on fellatio), and crush to STFU. Instead, he's just trying to rationalize why an 11 year old trans girl should be treated like shit and excluded from kiddie sports because winning trophies is just too important at that age.
In fairness, I don't know that Sockma has raised the "fairness" argument. The relevant question is what would Sockma do with the FTM. Under the logic used by sockma, you should keep them with the girls if that's where they want to stay because we should encourage girls who want to present as boys to go ahead and do so. Since youth soccer doesn't test for testosterone, at least on the youth level, presumably sockma would be totally comfortable having the FTMs who want to remain with the girls for as long as they like (until they hit a level that actually tests).
The part that gets me, though, is that sockma seems to think it is the out-of-group people, whether trans, ADHD, or African Americans, who are responsible for making the sacrifice and changing the world. Everyone else, including sockma's own kids, if they see an lgbtq person being beat up in front of them, can take a pass and live another day. I don't know yet if Sockma is sincere or is being pretexual Without an answer as to the FTMs, it's impossible to tell if Sockma is just a utopian naively in search of idealistic solutions, or someone who is just using their ideology as a pretext to advance their preferred solution.
There are those on the hard left, however, who do believe gender is a construct. If true, and there is really no such thing as feminine and masculine, it does blow a hole on the entire rationale for trans people to want to transition. I was frankly surprised given your history you didn't take the hard left perspective. I disagree gender is a construct. We know enough about brains to know that's simply not true.