I think the argument that our rejection of civilization would be terrible for trans people is based in colonial and (ironically) very transphobic attitudes. Indigenous and so-called “primitive” cultures around the world have always had gender-variant people and non-binary gender categories. (I don’t refer to them as trans because they were simply considered to be their gender, without any modifier.) To imply that trans people would suffer without western-style civilization and tech devalues those lived experiences.
Further, the notion that trans people need medicine or surgery to transition or to pass or for whatever reason is very alienating to a lot of trans people.
kore wrote
initially i think everyone in a neoliberal society is afraid of having their identity + place in it compromised by anarchy... it takes a lot of personal work to understand how trans is a socially constructed category inextricable from the neoliberal concepts of heterosexuality + Gender.
As far as comparison to other conceptions of so-called "gender", I have never read a historical analysis of them like we see for gender in the West, so I have tended to withhold judgement and conclusions about them because i simply don't understand it well enough. I think that the "non-Western-Neoliberal=good" argument is too general.