There is a huge difference between institutionalizing the genuinely mentally ill (for example paranoid schizophrenics) and people who are not mentally ill, but that one loud and aggressive group (who are themselves mentally ill) call mentally ill. Do you agree with Charlie Kirk that trans people are mentally ill (and therefore should be hated).
Wow. Let's unpack this because you're stuffing a bunch of stuff into one bit and asking me when I stopped beating my husband.
I accept that Kirk believes transgender people are mentally ill. Nothing I have seen from Kirk (and I haven't seen everything by any means) suggests in any fashion that Kirk thinks they should be hated - that's something that you and other ideologically motivated people are applying to him based on your beliefs, not his.
That said... I don't think anyone can categorically say that transgender identification is or is not indicative of mental illness. Particularly because what is currently referred to as "transgender" has become so broad that it's capturing a host of very different issues and trying to pretend that it's all just one thing. It's like asking whether or not I think that fever is a viral infection. Sometimes fever is the result of a viral infection, sometimes it's bacterial or fungal, sometimes it's associated with an autoimmune disorder, sometimes it's an allergic reaction, sometimes it's a tumor on the hypothalamus - it's not one singular thing. Just like fever is a symptom that is associated with a variety of different causes, so too is transgender identities.
That said, I do believe that some are mentally ill. For those who genuinely and deeply believe that their body is the wrong body, to such an extent that they feel compelled to harm healthy tissue in order to make their exterior mimic what their brain envisions, I think it's a mental illness. It's in the same category as body integrity identity disorder, anorexia, etc. This used to be referred to as transexualism, and it's a very specific and narrow definition.
I also, however, think that a significant portion of people who have labeled themselves transgender don't actually have any material and persistent dysphoria, and only a very very few have actual dysmorphia. For a large number of people who identify as transgender, the dysphoria is a symptom of something that is NOT indicative of transexualism.
For example, a massive number of young females who express dysphoria and identify as trans, they've had a history of childhood sexual abuse that is amplified by puberty and the way other people look at their bodies, and a feeling of being exposed and vulnerable because they're developing adult secondary sex traits. Instead of actually dealing with their prior trauma, they have substituted their sexed body as being to blame for their distress.
Similarly a large number of young males (and some females) are autistic, and they mistakenly latch onto transgender for two primary reasons. First is the delay or suppression of the development of romantic bonding that is a common component of autism, and they end up interpreting the fact that they aren't feeling that emotional pull to bond with others as being indicative of their body being wrong, when it's actually their neural development that is the root. Paired with this is the current love-bombing that occurs when someone comes out as trans, and this is something that autistic youth are even more susceptible to than others. For someone who has always had trouble connecting with others, suddenly being embraced and accepted and welcomed and celebrated is a powerful emotional hook. Those two things combine with the tendency of autistic people to fixate on ideas and beliefs, and can very quickly lead to the errant belief that they're transgender at an age where their cognitive development is delayed relative to their peers.
There are also at least some people who are trying to "trans away the gay", either due to their own inability to accept their sexual orientation or due to pressures from others. Iran, for example, will pay for sex trait modification surgeries and hormones - because the choice for gay men is to either be killed or to transition. Of note, gay women are of no account since women are essentially property and their sexual orientation doesn't matter if some guy wants to marry and have sex with them. But that's an entirely different topic.
There are a host of different causes and drivers that result in someone identifying as trans, and I'm not going to try to talk about all of them. But I will touch on one more: transvestic autogynephilia. A whole lot of activists want to pretend this doesn't exist, or that it doesn't matter, or they want to direct attention away from it. The reality, however, is that a fair number of males who are attracted to females, and who identify as transwomen, are not transexual, they're transvestites. They fetishize the female body, and they've transferred that fetish onto themselves - the root cause of their identification is sexual gratification from pretending to be, or being treated as, women.
So at the end of the day... Some people who identify as transgender are mentally ill, but many are not. Emotional distress isn't indicative of mental illness, nor are trauma responses, nor is neurodivergence, nor is distress about being same-sex attracted. What I will say, however, is that I don't think that significant and harmful body modification and permanent medicalization is a reasonable treatment for *most* of the causes.
So you believe all transgender people are not genuinely of a different brain/mind nature to their original body (1), and also that all of them are sexual predators (2). Sounds like unfounded bias and hatred to me. Why do American neo-conservatives have an obsession with public bathrooms (3)? When sexual assaults do occur there, it is mainly "real" men doing it (4).
Again, you keep trying to package everything up as if it's just one single thing.
(1) No, I don't think that transgender people genuinely have a differently sexed mind than their bodies. I think the notion is absurd. We *are* our bodies, and our bodies include our brain and our mind. I think it's possible for the brain to be wrong, brains lie to us all the time. But I don't think it's any more possible for a male who identifies as a transwoman to have a "female mind" than it is for an anorexic to have a "fat mind".
(2) No, I don't think that all transgender people are sexual predators, but some of them are. I think the vast majority of people who identify as trans are NOT sexual predators... but sexual offenders are overrepresented among people who identify as trans relative to their prevalence in the population as a whole. I also think that having transgender identity be based on nothing more than what a person says they feel is an open door for sexual predators to exploit. We've seen several cases now of sexual predators taking advantage of this giant loophole in order to do things like show off their dicks to nonconsenting women and children in the female side of the spa, in the women's showers, in women's changing rooms, rape girls in the bathroom, masturbate in rape shelters, and other unconscionable things.
(3) Public bathrooms are the least of my concerns... but they're also the thin end of the wedge. My largest concerns are for spaces and services where women are unclothed or particularly vulnerable - showers, nude spas, changing rooms, rape and domestic violence shelters, prisons, etc. The problem with bathrooms is two fold. One problem is that women use restrooms in ways that men don't, it's not uncommon for us to be partially unclothed dealing with a menstrual emergency, or trying to get away from a man who won't take no for an answer, or all sorts of other scenarios. And allowing males to use those same spaces takes that away from us, especially since there's no way at all to determine who's actually trans and who isn't. Given access as a right to males who identify as transwomen on the basis of their declaration of identity necessarily gives that access to any male who wants to enter - there's no way at all to stop them, since there's no way at all to distinguish between them.
(4) They're all real men. All of them are incontrovertibly and unalterably male. Humans are gonochoric.
People do change, we aren't walking stereotypes.
