There was a graph posted past month. Compared a lot of things including trans, and basically was how many trans people % in population vs how much people think there is an issue. I’m paraphrasing and guessing at the numbers since I don’t gave it handy. But say trans is 0.1% conservatives beleive it is affecting 30% of people, so it is a huge problem needing to be squashed.

As for the mental illness part, that should only be between their doctors and them, and nobody else gets an opinion and what happens. The medical community has a role to play in not harming a person who might be suffering mental condition clouding sane judgement.

For example there is that brain disorder where a person controls their limb normally (not alien hand syndrome) but they believe the limb is not their own, because the brain isn’t registering it as belonging to its own body. This can be from a damaged brain, parapysis issue or a delusion. In each case it causes patient distress. Can the root of the feeling be fixed? If not and patient asks for an amputation, do you perform that? Tough questions only the doctors and patient can work out, the rest of conservative society needs to keep their nose out of it.