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The real measure of whether or not an idea is true, at least in personal view, is how well does it hold up to your internal concept of ideal self?
We do not possess a source of universal truth. Sure, there's math and elaborate painstaking work done by scientists to identify what is true to the best of our knowing, but none of that is a "universal" truth.
After all, 1 + 1 = 2 only works when both of the 1s are the same things.
1 apple plus 1 orange does not equal 2 apples, you know?
Going back to the main point, if your version of your ideal self prefers for other people to be happy so that you can live in a world with as many happy people as possible, then ideally, leftist concepts and trans rights would be a truth for you.
What would matter to you about the lives and sexualities of other people is: are they happy?
If they are, great!
If they aren't, treat them as they want to be treated in that situation.
I assume that that is something akin to your ideal version of you.
If it is not, I'm not properly equipped to identify for you what is truth.
But I will say this: if you think that trans people or gay people are deviants or messed in the head, what does it matter to you?
If the entire nation of bumfuckistan started having gay sex from 8.30 to 5, Monday through Friday, what does that matter to you?
How are you affected by the actions of other people that you never interact with, that you never encounter, and that you never see?
Even if it is the most degenerate, horrible thing that can ever happen, it's between two consenting adults.
They're not going to hold you down and make you watch. You won't even ever know it's happening.
So why would you even give the first fucking thought about it?