Weather the whole concept causes controversy vs if trans identity is valid are two separate things.

At one point (before scrambling my instance so lost to this account) I made it a point to create a thread on a LGBT comm just to try and get some insight from people who actually lived it since I’m pretty far off from it and it was pretty enlightening. There are still some things I don’t really understand and don’t expect I will without direct experience.

In the end though it doesn’t cost anything for people to just treat the trans community as regular humans who in no way are hurting you. To that end the notion of if trans ID is valid shouldn’t be seen as controversial outside of by those refusing to allow someone else to live their life as they want to.