You said this much more eloquently than I could have.
Poverty doesn't exist because we can't feed the poor, it exists because the poor cannot feed themselves. And I'm not necessarily blaming the poor for that, we live in an economic system where it's difficult to get out of poverty. It didn't used to be that way.
Well said. Most of the time it's not even 'dressing as a woman'. On a day-to-day basis, women don't do full hair, makeup, or wear pretty dresses and heels. They don't have to - you can look at a woman in sweatpants & say "yup, that's a woman".
They crossdress as a Hollywood caricature of a woman because if they didn't, they'd just look like men.
Yet I'm sure that the homeless still get the flu and colds, and other illnesses. I'm sure they got covid too. The thing is, we were bombarded with pictures of streets in China littered with body bags and other such stories. Covid exists, but it's not deadly.
That's heartbreaking, but I commend the highschool girls for their common sense logic.