Well balanced and thought-out piece, Lindsay. Something else to put in your pipe and smoke, as it were, as you ponder these ideas: Not all trans theorists claim gender is a social construct.

A significant minority take the position that gender identity has a fundamental biological basis. They support this claim mostly historically and anthropologically, by observing that most or all cultures going back in time can be observed to have included gender-variant people.

They take the position that minority gender identities arise somehow in the brain or other biology, maybe as subtle variations of intersex conditions. This isn’t exactly transmedicalism, but it might intersect with it.

In any case, some trans people claim the biological role is important enough that variant gender identities would be experienced regardless of social constructs, unless some society existed in which gender was practically not recognized at all. I’m not aware of anyone pushing for that or claiming such a society could actually exist.

Something to think about.