Waco1947 said:
D. C. Bear said:
Waco1947 said:
Gender identity is not sex.
It matches the vast majority of the time, but sometimes people experience delusional thinking where they believe they are actually not a man even though they have XY chromosomes and all of the associated male hormones and secondary sex characteristics.
Again, "gender identity" is not "sex," by definition.
However, a person can get his or her gender identity wrong insofar as gender identity involves the belief that one is a man or a woman and whether you are a man or a woman is, objectively and measurably, determined by sex. We can test whether a person's gender identity is correct by whether it matches his or her actual sex. There are physical characteristics, primarily chromosomal characteristics, that are required for someone to be classified as male or female. (There are rare instances where these characteristics are jumbled but these intersex individuals are not what we see with the transgender mass hysteria currently in vogue).
If gender identity and sex does not match the individual is suffering from something that is causing them to be deluded.
That one defines their gender identity differently that their biological sex is not delusional but a recognition of their sexual identity as they perceive themselves. That perception is none of y9ur business.
They perceive themselves incorrectly and, if a man actually believes his is a woman, he is experiencing delusional thinking in the same way that I would be experiencing delusional thinking if I believed I was a dolphin.
That perception becomes my business in a variety of ways. For example, when someone says that I must use gendered pronouns that do not match his or her actual sex, that is a demand that I accept and participate in furthering a lie. I have a right, and at some level a moral obligation, to decline to do so.
When a man falsely says that he is a woman and expects to participate in women's sports, that becomes my business because, while I am not a woman, I am morally obligated to oppose injustice and having a man participate in women's sports as though he was a woman is an injustice to female athletes.
When my child is forced under color of law in the public school to "affirm" a lie, that is my business and when curriculum normalizing that lie in the schools is foisted on communities by activists who believe like you, that is very much my business. I have to vote for my school board members. How could this not be "my business" as a citizen?
So, yes, it is very much "my business" and the rhetoric you and your ilk offer that it is "none of your business" is a pathetic attempt to intimidate.
You should be ashamed of yourself on so many levels.