Sure go ahead and chop off your dick and call yourself a woman, I’m not going to stop you. In your case I might even encourage it. But don’t try to tell me I have to accept that is somehow normal, ok, healthy, or good, because it isn’t. It’s fucking insane.
Perhaps not criminalization (although I haven’t thoroughly looked into all of the relevant legal code), but still a high price to pay for say having an academic disagreement about gender identity theory as it becomes enshrined in law. Look if at this point in our conversation you think this is simply about reserving the right to be an asshole to people, I don’t know what I can say to complicate that view for you.
That’s pretty much the way things are, isn’t it? And people have the right to call you a bigot if you do that, and everyone’s happy and world understanding is advanced. It’s a bit precious to claim your mind is being raped by the effort.
You could explain in what contexts beyond being an asshole (or making a point for the sake of it, which may or may not be the same thing) it’s important to, say, keep calling a transgender colleague by their birth name and using their birth gender pronouns to refer to them. Or in what way it’s burdensome to you not to do so.
For example: for a doctor, it may be important to know their biological sex in planning surgery or prescribing drugs. I am fairly sure the law doesn’t prevent doctors from asking such questions.
Even other transgenders wont hire me. There all a bunch of bigots and fascists. Everyone is a bigot and fascist. They are all meat eaters and evil. The whole world is evil. It’s all a giant conspiracy against good.
I can describe a little of my experience. At least two people in my wider circle of friends are trans, and I’ve been in a classroom environment where I sat next to a male-to-female trans person who took the female pronouns and new chosen first name. I’ve respected their desires to be called “she.” I did slip up with my classmate in the beginning – accidentally saying “he” and realizing it immediately – because the way she looked and behaved to me was so typically male that that gendered impression was stuck pretty rigid in my head and furthermore persisted despite the fact that I altered the way I addressed the person.
Exercising common decency doesn’t require the adoption of a particular identity theory. But when you legislate the use of pronouns, including completely made up words, as a reflection of a particular theory of identity, this enforces certain beliefs about gender that to my knowledge are not settled. For his part, Dr. Peterson believes these embedded beliefs about gender to be unhealthy and harmful.
Well my transgender classmate happened to be somewhat obnoxious and off socially. She would pound on her laptop keyboard in class to the point that no one could focus and ask questions to show off what she knew. But I got to know her since she sat next me. One time she was writing a paper for another class and she made some comment about having a great argument but getting marked down for her writing. I had been a writing tutor/consultant off and on so I offered to look at her essay and give her feedback. So we stayed after one day and it was cool.