... Human rights law was born out of the promise that never again would a state be able to use its domestic law as a justification for oppressing and killing its own citizens. Human rights law internationalises the “social contract” between a state and its citizens, subjecting states to the respect of an international standard of treatment. What became human rights law aims to guarantee the respect of fundamental human rights by the state, the ultimate duty holder. Some of these human rights are classic liberty rights in the Hohfeldian sense; some are claim rights. In the case of claim rights, the duty holder is the state and its liability established by domestic or international courts such as the European Court of Human Rights.
Gender ideology goes well beyond promoting the respect of transgender people’s fundamental rights by the state. It demands that the state compel individuals to adapt their behaviour in response to the wishes of transgender people — and to make them liable in case of failure to comply with their demands.
The mechanism to make this possible is the replacement of the evidence of material reality as a guide for our behaviour, with the belief that self-perception is the only element necessary for the cognition of social relationships. The material reality of sex is replaced with the self-perception of one’s gender identity, a set of interrelated beliefs with little or no connection with material reality. This is the necessary trigger for all the demands that gender ideology places on individuals. ...
... The misrepresentation of trans rights as liberties, rather than claims, is only the first step of gender ideology. The second, and equally important one, is the movement of transforming and subverting social rules into legal rules. ...
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