Does not compute.
Politics, at its best, exists to advance the interests of human beings. Transgender people, like everyone else, need basic social recognition to survive. This is not extreme. I see no comparison to religious extremism.
You seem to be saying there is a "transgender ideology" that is distinct from transgender people. I have known hundreds of transgender people over a couple decades, and I cannot imagine what ideology you're referring to. Transgender people have, related to their gender, specific personal beliefs and specific political needs. (As do cisgender people have ideas and needs related to their gender.) There is no discrete ideology that transgender people can excise and toss in the trash bin. If they believe or want something, they probably have a good reason for believing or wanting it.
The "transgender ideology" that doesn't exist is a straw man. It is not going to become more powerful than Christianity.
If you are telling me that my use of public restrooms compromises the dignity of everyone else in the restroom, then yes, you are telling me that my dignity threatens others' dignity.
Gendered bathrooms are already defined by gender (at least by outward presentation, if not always by inner identity), not by physical sex. Gendered bathrooms have always been this way. No one verifies your physical sex before letting you in the bathroom. There is no bathroom guard who looks down your pants before opening the door. Most people pick a bathroom based on the closest match to their gender presentation because that is what will generate the fewest questions and cause the least alarm to others. If you think this is "extreme," then I guess you are already living in an extremist society, because (wherever you are in the world) I guarantee you that you have shared a public bathroom with a transgender person and not realized that the person was transgender. Appropriate bathroom access is not a policy that transgender people invented; it is the way the world works. You are part of it.
I have had much opportunity in my life to reflect on how this works. I don't really want it explained to me.
Dawkins' lack of awareness and interest in whether he is punching up or down is, in itself, a reason to revoke his award for Humanism. Everyone who cares about being a good person needs to be aware of the relative power of those who they attack. Weaker people questioning the authority of stronger people is often good because it rebalances power. Stronger people delegitimizing weaker people is often unethical. Anyone who can't figure this out will have problems standing up for the dignity of others.
If you want real information about trans people, please listen to trans people directly and don't get information about us from people who are telling lies about us.
The comparison to Islamic fundamentalists, however that is supposed to work, is distressing. This conversation is highly distressing to me. I am not able to continue with it.
