Note that the trans space is much bigger than people with gender dysphoria who wish to 'transition' to the opposite sex. Trans activists claim that gender dysphoria is not necessary to be trans, that there are an undefined but large number of genders, that no trans-identified person needs to make any physical or medical changes whatever, and that pronouns that are indistinguishable from parody must be accepted.
Mammals cannot change sex.
You are poisoning the well, again. If you merely wanted to highlight that my belief is solid, you could say 'you believe that with the same conviction you believe that Canberra is the capital of Australia." It behooves me to correct anybody who insists that no, Sydney is the capital of Australia. It doesn't make my belief that Canberra is the capital 'fervent' or 'closeminded'.
Of course I have to believe it. I cannot jettison beliefs I know to be true and replace them with ideas I know to be false. That's not how brains work.
No mammal has ever changed sex. What evidence do you have that a mammal has or could? What biologists have you been talking to that told you "mammals can change sex"? What text book told you mammals can change sex?
Because being able to utter the truth is important to me. Being allowed to have the facts is important to me. A man does not become a woman by gaining additional breast tissue, inverting his testicles into a neovagina, and by shaving his legs. I cannot look at Laurel Hubbard and believe he is a woman because he is not a woman. I do not believe I should have to participate in the religion of trans identity. I should not have to invoke their chants and prayers ("trans women are women, trans men are men, non-binary identities are valid"). I cannot give away any semblance of reason in my thoughts to believe that penis-in-vagina sex can be a lesbian act.
Carla can never be "enough of a woman" to warrant being called a woman, because a woman is an adult human female, and Carla is not that.
Now, in most societies we generally do respect the name people give for themselves, so calling the person 'Carla' is not a problem.
If Carla were 'woman enough' to join those spaces, if society already saw him as 'woman enough', he'd be 'woman enough' to enter those spaces without a policy of any kind. A woman doesn't get nervous when another woman enters a public restroom, because they can see the person who entered is a woman.
Note that trans activists do not want any transwoman to have to go to the lengths you have described in order to be seen as 'enough of a woman'.
You can think of Carla as a woman if you like, and call her one. I'm not the boss of you. But it is certainly skin off my nose if you force ME to call her a woman, when that is not something I believe, not something I can believe, and not something it is reasonable for anybody to believe. I might engage in polite fictions about Carla but that is what they would be.
Something sticks in my craw about being forced to participate in make believe.
In Canada, an employee was awarded $30,000 because another employee used she/her pronouns for her, when she wanted they/them pronouns. In her testimony to the tribunal, she claims deep trauma from hearing she/her pronouns.
The owner of a private campground in Michigan, America wanted to make his grounds all male. This made a lot of people extremely angry, because trans activists cannot allow people to choose with whom they want to associate. They cannot abide the thought that some men just want to be around other men, and not women masquerading as men, and the thought is so triggering to them they will use every social and legal tool available to them to stop it.
In my younger days, I occasionally visited a gay sex-on-premises venue. Do you believe a transman is 'man enough' to be admitted? If the majority of members did not want transmen admitted, or if the owner didn't want it, shouldn't he have that right?
Women would have their sporting achievements trampled upon, to appease the vanity of men who believe they have qualified as women.
Women's psychological comfort and physical security are compromised when they are forced to accept males into their spaces.
Freedom of speech, thought, and conscience are compromised by the legal erasure of a person's birth sex, the general proscription on 'deadnaming', the government enforcement of pronouns.
Do you know the people who are banned on Twitter? Donald Trump, and people who "misgender".
The trans-industrial complex absolutely dominates nearly all LGBT organisations and societies. Absolutely absurd ideas, like that gender is assigned at birth, or that homosexual men are attracted to the 'male gender' and not the male sex, are now uttered without any murmur of protest or pushback. Caitlyn Jenner's bio on Wikipedia, describing his athletic history, where he competed and won as a man, is un-fucking-readable because of the desperate need for the author to avoid any pronouns. The trans-industrial complex has been so successful, a man can expose his penis to young girls in a female-only spa, and the outcry is about the people who called him a man.
The trans-industrial complex has been so successful that it's as if they read Nineteen Eighty-Four as an instruction manual.
) I'm afraid to make a List of the Ten Most Important Problems Facing the U.S.A. — Afraid that Ten won't be enough to cover the many important and urgent problems we face.
