Causes of & potential cures for extreme transphobia?

Yep.

The social media aspect is the part that starts to become apparent as a social driver. 

It wreaked havoc in my family when my kids were growing up. 

In the movie The Social Dilemma, the documentary shows the exponential rise of self harm in children circa 2011-2012 or so due to the rise of algorithms that multiplied pressures on society. 

This was reflected in my own family. I saw it first hand. 

The social media aspect of this, pressuring kids, influencing kids and teaching kids during a vulnerable age is what has propagated much of the social conflict we see today. 

I fully believe some kids will experience gender dysphoria, etc.

But as many psychologists will note, children go through all sorts of phases as they are finding themselves. Role playing, sex swapping, body hate, etc.

I did. I hated myself growing up and was always looking for reasons to justify my existence. 

But MOST of this goes away in due time as each person settles into themselves. 

The steroid intense pressure to discuss sexuality with children at a young age is a terrifying thing to me. You are influencing behavior and stirring thoughts in children that should lay dormant until a much later age and in influencing them, creating a trajectory that may never exist otherwise. 

The proof is in how many young adults regret their transitioning. 

We are literally living in an age where ideologically, we are sacrificing children to make adults feel better. It's happening wholesale across society. 

We did it in the Covid pandemic where young people are dying at elevated numbers for the safety of the adults.

And now it seems to be happening in this as well.