”To answer a previous question. All an archeologist digging up ancient bones can tell is the chromosome of the person. They won't be able to tell whether the original person IDed as a man, woman, non-gender binary, gay, straight, a Christian, an etheist, or a million other things that do not evidence themselves in your bones.
Not sure what that proves.”
It proves that you cannot change your sex, @JAPAB - because at the most basic genetic level, you are male or you are female.
This applies to all human tissue, not just bones, so skin cells taken from a penis would show that the person that penis belonged to is male, ergo the penis is a male organ. Scientific fact.
If someone wants to live as a woman, I have no problem with that - I will call them what they want to be called. If someone suffers from gender dysphoria and needs to transition, I am deeply sympathetic, and would not dream of refusing to use the name or pronouns they preferred. If someone wants to cross dress some or all of the time, crack on - I think it is based in very toxic, narrow stereotypes of masculine and feminine, but if it makes someone else happy, who am I to criticise.
But I will not allow the fight for trans rights to be at the expense of girls’ and women’s rights and safety. And I will not collude in the fantasy that someone born male, male at the most basic genetic level, can become female, or vice versa. They can have medical and surgical treatment to allow them to pass as the gender they prefer, but they cannot change at a cellular, genetic level.
Nor will I collude in or approve of the medical treatment of adolescent and ore-adolescent children with hormones that could have life long deleterious effects on them, both physically and emotionally.