Parents don’t want their kids to be hurt… who would?

Sounds like you agree that parents at 4th Wave are motivated by concern for their children, rather than by hate, which is the point I was making.

for the most part, cisgender people cannot even conceive what being trans is like, let alone make intelligent explanations regarding the same

Can transgender people conceive of what it’s like to identify for a time as trans and then to desist?