I mean it sounds more like a discussion I’ve seen before: being trans does not automatically equate to suffering. Dysphoria is not a requirement. You can be trans because you seek gender euphoria, or you can see unique positives or at least perspectives in the process of transition, and even when medical care is readily available a lot of trans people don’t ever want to physically transition. Saying no one would undergo surgery is probably an exaggeration or naive take on other people’s circumstances, but it’s true that in a lot of cases, social transition being readily accepted has been enough, and I’m pretty sure I remember that the majority of trans people stop at HRT in the long term even when surgery is an option. At the end of the day, we can’t know if she’s wrong or not yet because we can’t just will that hypothetical society into being, unfortunately.
Also most people in communities like autism and lgbtq+ would tell you that it’s way too dangerous to start genetic testing for this stuff in our current global climate, and that the perceived possibility of good may never be worth that risk, or be such a huge help in the first place. At the end of the day, the genetic component (if it even exists and doesn’t end in more truscum nonsense like the artist suggesting people could be called fake trans for not having the marker) really hasn’t been seen as that helpful in any group studied like this I’ve seen so far, and it IS a blatantly helpful line of research for eugenics, so really that panel doesn’t read as ‘extreme’ at all aside from the frontloaded buzzwords. Genetic testing and cure research is INCREDIBLY unpopular for a LOT of neurodivergency, and obviously for the LGBTQ too.
And besides, when you look into how long ago transness has existed, and all the ways it worked out when it wasn’t pathologized, there can be some merit to not trying to pick apart and justify every part of the trans and genderqueer life. Justifying just leads to more truscum (people who say you’re not really trans unless you get your genitals changed) moving the goalposts on who’s really trans, which is probably what she was defensive about on the genetics point.
To be fair, some of the overcomplicated electric soda streams have pre-measured carbonization settings instead of the push to carbonate mechanical system. Personally I’m using one of the cheaper third party versions I got on liquidation for like 30 bucks lol