No, I do not think this is possible. I know it sounds nice but you cannot say that some men who think they are women are “free” to “live as they choose to believe” or whatever. Because that IMMEDIATELY means human rights and social recognition. It just does. We cannot conduct two simultaneous societies at once - one where gender is binary and biological, and one where gender is fluid and psychological - and not expect all sorts of problems. Problems with architecture, with forms and paperwork, with certificates, with education, with sports, with recreation, with law, with the foundations of science. The whole idea is madness, but nobody wants to be “mean”, so people are trying to come up with some sort of compromise.
The only way out of this is for us to reclassify gender dysphoria back into a mental illness, revoke the license of all these doctors amputating genitals, and dismiss this whole thing as an obscene medical error, like electroshock therapy and lobotomies. As soon as we recognize “transgenderism” as valid in any way, we are forced to overhaul our entire society to accommodate the destructive whims of a mental illness that has been turned into an ideology.
Transgender people are NOT trapped in the wrong body. They are that body. They are suffering from a mental disorder that causes them to FEEL as though they are in the wrong body, in the same way that the anorexic perceives their skeletal body as disgustingly obese. The perception IS the disorder. We sympathize with the body and gender dysmorphic, but we do not indulge the fallacies of their illness. And yes, this upsets them. That is part of the healing process.
No, I do not think this is possible. I know it sounds nice but you cannot say that some men who think they are women are “free” to “live as they choose to believe” or whatever. Because that IMMEDIATELY means human rights and social recognition. It just does. We cannot conduct two simultaneous societies at once - one where gender is binary and biological, and one where gender is fluid and psychological - and not expect all sorts of problems. Problems with architecture, with forms and paperwork, with certificates, with education, with sports, with recreation, with law, with the foundations of science. The whole idea is madness, but nobody wants to be “mean”, so people are trying to come up with some sort of compromise.
The only way out of this is for us to reclassify gender dysphoria back into a mental illness, revoke the license of all these doctors amputating genitals, and dismiss this whole thing as an obscene medical error, like electroshock therapy and lobotomies. As soon as we recognize “transgenderism” as valid in any way, we are forced to overhaul our entire society to accommodate the destructive whims of a mental illness that has been turned into an ideology.
Transgender people are NOT trapped in the wrong body. They are that body. They are suffering from a mental disorder that causes them to FEEL as though they are in the wrong body, in the same way that the anorexic perceives their skeletal body as disgustingly obese. The perception IS the disorder. We sympathize with the body and gender dysmorphic, but we do not indulge the fallacies of their illness. And yes, this upsets them. That is part of the healing process.