Why is sex the only protected characteristic that people want to, or are ‘allowed’ to, self identify into? by

[SingleSexMattersInCharity]

This has been something that I mull over. Why is sex the only PC that society allows people to self id into with very little checks and balances? You can get your marker on your driving licence changed very easily.

disability: yes, I realise that people can self identify as disabled but if they want benefits associated with disability there is, quite frankly, a horrendous procedure to go through in order get benefits.

Age: if someone wanted to be older to get pension they wouldn’t be accepted or alternatively if they wanted to attend nursery but were 20 they would not be allowed. Think of the Scottish case of the man who pretended to be younger to be in high school again.

maternity: women who fake pregnancy are absolutely derided.

race: we all think of the obvious case of the women who faked being black but I’m also thinking about when you want to change your citizenship and the expensive, complicated and time consuming process you have to go through to achieve a change of citizenship.

Campaigners have fought for easy, cheap and dignified changes to “changing sex” (not possible as we know) but other PCs have very expensive, complicated and dehumanising process.

why is the PC of sex different?

People are free to believe what they like about themselves.
They are not free to force me to share that belief.

If a man says he is a women, I do not have to support his delusion

@confusedbydating a “queer feminist” is an oxymoron

I believe a beautiful looking young man, including a gay one, would definitely be a target.

Lots of men don’t care what hole they get. Think of rape in the Russian army.
They don’t think they are being gay if they are doing the penetrating.

And not many transwomen have had surgery.

This is Human Rights Watch on prison rape. The first sentence cites a case about a pre-operative transwoman, then all the rest is about ordinary boys and men getting sexually abused and raped.

Human Rights Watch male on male rape in prisons

www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison/report4.html

It’s a bit more nuanced than you’re making it out to be. It’s quite shocking hearing you so angry about a marginalised group that face prejudice every day.

I'm not angry. I was simply explaining why it is totally unreasonable for your female friend who wishes she were a man to use the Gents. There is no nuance. What she is doing is wrong. The choice is hers to use the Ladies or Gender Neutral but she absolutely should not use the Gents because she is & will forever remain female.

Because it protects women and puts barriers on men.

And if you identified as straight but were in a gay relationship or hook up with people of the opposite sex, people would have questions.

Logically, race is much more of a spectrum as well. Many people say they are 'half Black' or 'part asian' etc, or they do a DNA test and tell everyone they are 3% this and 27% that.

It would take much less to imagine a world where everyone was similarly mixed race, or racism was completely obliterated, and race was no longer a significant social construct, than to imagine a world where sex was no longer relevant (even just from a reproductive/physical perspective).

Age is a spectrum, and you can alter your physical appearance to look younger, or your 'biological age' via health measures.

So yes, it makes no logical sense to treat sex as the sole characteristic people can identify into.