Am I a bad person because I can understand where Buck Angel is coming from? I know several, actual people that claim trans identity that have no intention of transitioning or presenting as the gender they are identifying as. I can get why that’s frustrating.
Furthermore, this happens a bit in the amateur porn scene to make sales / win awards in specialized categories. These awards have monetary value and are based on fan-voting.
yeah if people have no intention to make any effort to change at all then it seems likely they're not suffering from dysphoria
i.e. you might be tempted to say to them, you want me to treat you special when you're not experiencing any particular condition that would require me to do so to alleviate your distress
and if the average person has a strong involuntary reaction to say "you people are nuts" then it's damaging to those who do have dysphoria when you lump them all in the same basket
and it also feels like the line between troll and attention-seeker gets increasingly blurred, like if you walk up to some ordinary bald bearded dude and he says "actually I'm a woman" without the slightest hint of falsetto, you wonder whether they're alt-right trying to highlight the ridiculousness of the situation or instead one of THOSE people