And I would do this. If someone wanted to be called something other than what they seem to be to my eyes, I would do it. But this doesn’t mean I endorse the philosophy, per se. More important, yes, we do treat them differently but one part, the part I support, of the Left is saying let’s end that. The other part is saying it’s fine and good to continue that, to create and support stereotypes, to teach children those stereotypes - for example the whole drag queens reading children stories movement, or the whole, if you think you have the qualities of a girl but were born a boy then you are a transperson philosophy. That is problematic. It’s gone beyond ‘accept people for who they are’ to a philosophical underpinned based on fixed sex qualities.
I can’t see how. You will have adults telling girls and boys that girls, for example can be like X, should not be exluded from B because they are girls and also that girls needs not be Y. They you are also telling them that Janie is a girl despite being born in a body that is male, and this is based on not feeling like a male inside. And then Janie will, generally, though yes, not always, act more like a girl (in the traditional sense) than many of the girls. And they everyone will be told they are bad (though often not in those words) if they do not accept this. That’s a mess, and I cannot see how that mess in part reinforces the differences, and in fact is more pernicious because it is a kind of brainwashing, wehre one says opposing ‘truths’ to people. IOW this is a method used by brainwashers. I am not using the term to simply mean ‘sticking ideas without consent into people’s heads’ but the use of contradictory messages is a tool used in attempts to brainwash.
I am not sure that is the case. And since there is incredible rage and judgment aimed at those not accepting something that at the same time is being fought elsewhere, I don’t think the roles will be less fixed.
I wouldn’t call that blackface. It’s something else. I don’t think I judged that woman. I think it’s off for her to say she’s black, but I have sympathy for her sense of that. I can see no reason to tell others that however. I can certainly imagine saying, I feel black, to friends.
My beliefs actually include an ontology that actually allow for being born in the wrong body. I would be considered loopy by many here on these topics. However I think it is more rare than is now being put forward. My main concern is what is being aimed at teenagers and younger with their radically plastic brains trying to reconcile two unreconcilable messages, both coming from the PC of just one group. It’s bad enough when several groups are in on the ‘education’ each with different philosophies. but now we have one group aiming contradictory messages.