Yeah, it's super difficult to be a young white man right now. Better transition to a woman, it's the only way to get by and be widely accepted wherever I go

They mock it, but in certain circles, it's true. Especially among young people. Also, trannies are mentally ill, so you can't rationally explain every single thing, either. But, yes, you get more progressive points as a tranny than a white male. Obviously. Sure, others are disgusted by you, but among your peers, you gained many more points.

"I think people are so impressionable and have such little sense of self that it's possible to bully them INTO being trans..."

There's clearly something up, how else do you explain the exploding rates, and how it matches other social contagions of the past, like eating disorders among young girls? This is not natural, stop pretending it is. Yes, you can bully (or coerce, or bribe) impressionable youngsters into being trans. At the very least the low-effort kind. If I'm a young idiot and can get more clout simply by demanding you call me by "my pronouns," yeah, plenty of people are going to take that deal.

Also, again, see trannies being mentally ill. And the link with autism. Even normal people can fall to the virus but, people need to realize that if you're just looking at rates overall, it's not a universal sample of the average person. The numbers are skewed simply by who is accepting the offer, or pressured by the bullying. On average, you're not turning average people into trannies, you're turning the most susceptible people into trannies. In the past they'd get an eating disorder, or do a bunch of drugs, or join a cult, or something. Now they go trans.