Same reason we're getting rid of smallpox, absolute monarchy, and illiteracy. Some things have been around since the dawn of humanity that we could well do without.
Personally, I find trans kinda icky. I cannot imagine wanting to be anything other than the sex I was born.
But I prefer living in a world where my preference isn't enforced, nor anyone else's. That's what has changed, and I find it a big moral improvement.
Tom
I don't find it icky at all... but I also don't find it a big moral improvement.
I would consider it a moral improvement if the colloquial definition of "man" was extended to *include* males who lie to wear dresses and nail polish, rather than excluding them as not meeting the requirement of manhood.
The problem here is that by extending the meaning of the word "woman" to include bepenised testiculators... you ARE forcing a preference on other people. You're forcing the preference of a small number of male people onto a large number of female people. You're forcing a large number of female people to have their boundaries overridden, and granting an entitlement to a small number of males, giving them the "right" to view naked females against our consent, and to expose their penises to females without our consent.
Seriously, if the ONLY thing being asked for was pronoun usage and the abstract notion of "woman" out on public streets to include people who had medically transitioned in some meaningful way, I wouldn't object at all. I give absolutely zero shits how a person dresses, or whether they wear nail polish and heels or have a buzzcut and steel-toed boots.
The problem is that the term "woman" has historically meant females of the human species... and now it is being
retroactively redefined so that "women's locker" and "women's prison" and "women's sports" get forced to include males, even though every single one of us knows that was never the intention.
Redefining a term then using that forced redefinition to attempt to make other people ignore material reality is a problem. Especially when that redefinition is being based on a person's unverifiable internal feelings with no objective means of verification. Self-declared gender identity supplanting sex in law and policy is a really, really, bad idea.