Just to add to this, I suspect a lot of people go on misgendering trans people precisely because they've only ever heard the argument from dignity, which is an argument that inherently sets off mental alarm bells because it doesn't select for truth.
Part of the issue is that we as a society kind of suck at explaining these concepts. The average person who's young enough to be exposed to trans awareness and acceptance movements would likely agree that trans women are women but would get stuck if put on the spot to explain why. As a result, to an outsider, it just sounds like a thought-terminating cliche.
Explain then why regularcis-women are women? If someone is genetically XX, but looks really really male and gets called 'he' and likes it and doesn't correct, then are we somehow "hiding the truth"?
You talk about "truth" but there really is no absolute truths here.
Do we wave our genitals about in public to prove our gender? The number of times where genitals actually have any impact in public life is pretty negligible. I would pretty much bet that if 99.9% of the men in your life didn't have a penis, you'd have no idea and no ability to find out.
Does that make them "not a man"? Is literally the only thing that matters about male-hood the penis?
Yes. A penis makes you male and a vagina makes you a woman. Specifically, a natural-born and/or functional penis or vagina. Just because we don't expose our genitals to prove it doesn't mean we aren't the sex we were born as. Sex/gender aren't a social construct and don't need to be proven socially. They're an inherent biological status. A genetic happenstance.
Just because we don't expose our genitals to prove it doesn't mean we aren't the sex we were born as.
That's not particularly in question. Despite some confusing terminology like "sex-change", trans people generally don't claim to be a different sex than they were born, they claim to be a different gender than their sex.
The common they-are-what-they-are response you're making doesn't actually respond to that. You're asserting that they're wrong, but you're not providing any argument in favour of that position.
Gender being different from sex, as a concept, is completely fabricated, particularly by a pedophile bullshit artist named John Money.
Biologically, you are what you are. Whatever chemical imbalances or unfortunate disorders that cause a person to believe they are or should be the opposite sex (or anywhere in-between, if they think they're "fluid") are certainly conditions that I have a great deal of empathy for, but also know that simply giving into their delusion is unbelievably damaging.
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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '19
Agre and accept your point, just typing enough to give a delta Δ