Definitely not alone! Funny timing about this. Was just reading through this post yesterday that also is (partly) framed around Singer's BITE model. I actually do agree with the author's conclusion that transgenderism does not qualify as a cult, due to lack of a clear Leader or Leaders that are also venerated, but that it certainly has a lot of cult like aspects & would qualify as a thought reform programme. Author mentions some may argue

https://www.critorix.co.uk/essays/cults-deception-and-the-woke-left/

###August 15, 2019 | Cults, Deception and the Woke Left by @AlteredSquid

Not all trans people are transgenderists. And not all transgenderists are trans people – in fact, most are not. Transgenderism is a separate thing from whatever it means to be trans. Transgenderism is not a state of being. It’s a political movement. . .

. . .‘Transgenderism’ plays on the feelings and deepest desires of trans people, and recruits them into an effort to persuade society to accept its two fundamental axioms: trans women are women, and sex work is work.

But this is just one component of the ‘woke’ thought-reform program, which aims to queer society to destroy and then rebuild it as a totalitarian system. But it’s all done with sugar and spice and all things nice – until you disagree with the management. Or, as I like to call them, The Great Penis Cult.

. . .6 Conditions for a Though Reform Environment

1. Deception – Keep the subject unaware of the hidden agenda

2. Destabilisation – Control the subject’s physical environment and ‘thinking time’.

3. Dependency and Dread – Create a sense of powerlessness, anxiety and fear

4. Disconnection – Suppress the old behaviour and attitudes

5. Developing the Cult Pseudopersonality – Elicit new behaviour and attitudes

6. Denial and Dedication – Maintain a closed system of logic and restrict criticism.