Trans people’s existence isn’t a political position or a logical puzzle.

All you have know is:

people who deserve respect = people who deserve respect.

The project of inventing your own gender theory based on Bio 101 is pretty myopic. As though people don’t count as people until you’ve fixed the taxonomy in your mind. You don’t have to read Judith Butler, but have the self awareness that dismissing the literature before engaging with it is not the product of critical thought.