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They do. "I thought you knew I'm trans".

> Trying to be the opposite of your biological sex is what "trans"

They are not trying to be of another biological sex. "opposite" is a rather bad term here. They are living out their idea of what a person from the other sex would do. "their idea" emphasized.

> It makes as much sense as replacing "tall people" with "tall-identifying people".

"tall" is an measurable thing. Distance is a metric unit, even.




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