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Yes in absolute quantitative terms. I don't particularly care about whether individual trans people have it worse than depressed or anxious people, I think the question is beyond confused anyway.
When you're looking at societal issues it makes sense to focus it on the aggregate, in my view. Why the heck would anyone talk about a mental illness 100 people had? (Obviously trans is larger but the media massively overplays the numbers.)
This is a reasonable point.
I still think it is appropriate to talk about in disproportion to its prevalence due to the unique nature of its advocacy. That is, it is deliberately being promoted and celebrated and spread, as opposed to incidentally spread via cultural knowledge as the other conditions are. As a result:
It is increasing at a faster rate than the other conditions are. So its prevalence in the future may be greater than theirs even if its current prevalence is not
It is significantly simpler to reduce. Stop digging the hole. Mental health conditions which are treated as mental health conditions and spread via general cultural knowledge of them would require deliberate anti-awareness campaigns or other anti-memetic shenanigans to reduce this way. Transgenderism just requires you to stop celebrating it. Or, it would have, the cat's probably out of the bag now and it's probably going to stick around for a long time even if a consensus were to be reached that it's negative for its sufferers. But at the very least, stopping its increase would improve mental health in the future. So it's possible to create more value per effort, at least in theory, because of its current position in the culture war.
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