People yes, but it gets more complicated. Some people think that transgender doesn't even exist. It is hard to manage a problem when people think transgender people are either crazy, perverts, or criminals. Then the issue of it impacting women more because, in general, the boundaries being crossed impact woman a lot more than man, and the indifference to this reality by others whether through legalistic simplicity or misogyny.
Then there is the actual issue of how to accommodate, if people took the rights to all sides involved in this seriously, which in itself, isn't easy. But we can't even get to that point.
In this thread, I have seen not one single person deny that some people are transgendered or otherwise non-gender conforming. In fact, people seem to be extremely accepting.
TomC and Bomb#20 (among others) appear very reluctant to accept transgenders changed gender.
You appear very reluctant to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord. You appear very reluctant to accept that there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is His prophet. Why are you so unaccepting of Christians and Muslims?[/sarcasm]
How the heck did your ridiculous notion that in order to be accepting of people you
have to agree with them become so prevalent? And why did the progressives collectively decide to make it an article of faith just for transgendered people?
As for whether transgendered people changed gender, among progressives' many articles of faith, the one that keeps messing up their thinking on this topic is that they systematically equate "gender" with "gender identity" even though they have zero evidence that those are the same thing. That is an
equivocation fallacy. Yes, I am very reluctant to accept that fallacies are logic.
"Gender refers to the characteristics of women, men, girls and boys that are socially constructed. This includes norms, behaviours and roles associated with being a woman, man, girl or boy, as well as relationships with each other. As a social construct, gender varies from society to society and can change over time." -- World Health Organization
Do you see anything in there about how a person
identifies? "Socially constructed" means "socially constructed"; it does not mean "individually constructed by your personal feelings". Gender identity is the sex role you categorize
yourself as; gender is the sex role
other people categorize you as. So whether a transgendered person changed gender is not up to me, and it's not up to you, and it's not up to that transgendered person. A person with gender dysphoria can only change to the other gender when the people of a society systematically start thinking of people with his or her characteristics as the other gender. Gender activists can advocate that we do so, and gender activists can pretend that we do so, but the fact of the matter depends on whether we
actually do so.
Consequently, if people by and large regard a biological male who looks like a woman and had a sex-change operation and has breast implants and an artifical vagina and no penis and a ton of estrogen and no testosterone as a woman, then she changed gender. And if people by and large regard a biological male who looks like a man and shows no sign of femaleness other than claiming to be female and has had no surgery and has a beard and a ton of testosterone and no estrogen as a man, then he has not changed gender. Social constructs don't disappear in a puff of progressives' illogic.
And if that's too nuanced a view for progressives' taste, because it means some have changed gender and some haven't, so consequently it's too nuanced to be summarized as "Bomb#20 accepts transgenders changed gender" or "Bomb#20 appears very reluctant to accept transgenders changed gender", then progressives can get stuffed. If you want to tell women that the bearded and intact male menacing them in the women's room who says he's a woman really did change gender, and you want to tell women they should believe you because you know better than they do what it is to be a woman, knock yourself out. As for me, I am not willing to do that much mansplaining.
