There are 2 sexes. Sex is made up of more than just chromosomes or gametes. You can change aspects of your physical sex. Some people change their sex hormones, their secondary sex characteristics and to some extent their primary sex characteristics.
Right? Why should someone who does this be allowed to access the rights and opportunities set up for females if they are not female?
Why is this not acceptable for changing age or race again? I seem to keep missing why the protected category of sex can be accessed through artificial body modifications and not other protected categories.
As a society we treat these people - for most purposes - as if they have changed sex. Socially, legally and to some extent medically. (Where appropriate).
No. Some parts of society treat these people as if they have changed sex.
I did like though your ‘for most purposes’. I would add ‘never treated as the opposite sex where sex actually matters and this includes single sex spaces, sports and for instances where females have been given opportunities that seem to address centuries of discrimination due to having a body formed from conception to have the potential to produce large gametes.
We do this because current medical thinking is that there is likely a mixture of factors, genetic, biological, social and cultural that lead to the development of a cross sex identity.
Please evidence this. Because you are deliberately twisting a whole lot of academic fields under the umbrella of ‘medical thinking’ and I doubt you actually can produce this evidence at all. You have made a very big claim so you must have been reading very widely to form this assertions. We shall wait for your evidence.
So far attempts to change gender identity have failed. Therefore the next best thing (for male to female and female to male people) has been done which is to support people to transition to, and live as, their new sex (which some call gender). People are able to function and contribute to society when supported to do so.
All good, except when there are clashes to established rights for females. Come on, you have been posting on these boards long enough, you have heard it all before. Strange though, no consideration is ever given by you to women who are patiently pointing out the conflicts.
Some people that do this resemble their transitioned sex more closely than others. Those that do have less problems being accepted as their transitioned sex in most situations. Those that don’t… well yes there is an element of politeness involved.
So again, we are told to be kind, to allow the lies, to ignore the harm to woman and children that this is causing to perpetuate this for some people.
Is there another group of people who you feel should get this special treatment? If you cannot see the dissonance in your post, then I guess you are continuing to willfully ignore it. As usual.
You entire post was ‘we know people are artificially modifying their bodies to match what they feel their bodies should (same with the people with 100% body tattooing, including eyes, and tongue modifications to resemble a snake or a dragon or whatever… or vampires), and you admit there are some times that they should not be treated like the opposite sex (but you don’t qualify those occasions), and for those who don’t pass- be kind and pretend they pass to access whatever they damn well want despite if it harms women and children.