I believe that everyone should have the right to identify how they choose and people should respect t.
When I write it like that, it's indisputable.
What an absurd thing to say. I dispute it, most strongly.
No one is under any obligation whatsoever to respect someone else’s “identity”, especially when that “identity” is clearly at odds with material reality.
Especially when the act of claiming that identity is actually a form of appropriation carried out by members of the sex class with privilege and power against the sex class with markedly less privilege and power.
Especially when that act directly undermines the safety and breaches the human rights of the more vulnerable sex class.
No one is under any obligation whatsoever to set aside their own needs and beliefs, at great personal cost to themselves, in order to prioritise and validate the beliefs of another. There is no moral or rational basis for this at all, and there is a considerable moral and rational basis for saying no one is compelled to respect others’ beliefs in the sense of agreeing that they’re true, which is what you are implying.
Respecting their right to hold their beliefs is one thing; agreeing that they’re true is another thing altogether, and no civilised, democratic society has any business mandating people’s beliefs.
So a biologically male person is entitled to feel any way he likes about himself, including that he has some kind of feminine essence; I am equally entitled to be clear that regardless of his feelings he is nonetheless an adult human male and as such he is rightfully excluded from spaces and services set aside for those of the female sex, and indeed from the category “woman”.
The thing about having these arguments in your own head, or your own echo chamber, where you win every time, is that it in no way prepares you for having the argument with other people who think differently from you.
“Indisputable”. FFS.