They do not have the right to expect society to remake itself to cater to their issues, nor to demand that we pretend to believe that they are actually what they want to be, instead of a member of the sex they actually ARE.
How is society remaking itself catering to their issues, unless you are placing them outside society, welcome in only marginal ways?
I think some of this comes down to whether we want to be an inclusive society or exclusive society, and when is something being pushed too far too fast for "society" to accept. Before transgender, it was gays, the disabled, women, racial minorities, religious minorities, divorce...and at each step of the way the ideas of what constituted appropriate and acceptable had to widen.
I think we are at that point now, do we accept or reject? Acceptance isn't partial or conditional, it is the same way you and I despite our differences, would accept each other as fellow people worthy of the same rights.
Ultimately, it comes down to rights. IMO, if you are talking about the rights of liberty and happiness, that means the right to be who you are.
We install curb cuts and braile signage, we have laws on access and on workplace and housing discrimmination in order to allow Americans to fully and equally enjoy their rights. Is that pandering?
There is nothing to stop you from choosing what pronoun to use or choosing who to associate with, and how, so I don't see how this actually would dirctly effect you other than outrage at ideas?
Right now, we are letting men crush women in sports, causing them real material harm, and sometimes, real PHYSICAL harm, in order to pander to these people and their ideological supporters.
FOR ONE LIMITED EXAMPLE, of how our response has gone WAY TO FAR.
Sports is the one area where I agree, it is problematic. It is not "going too far" so much as HOW can we address this in a way that respects rights of both groups fairly? Maybe we should instead try to look for solutions based on facts not fear?
For example:
It is a fact that men and women are very different physically in many ways. Some of that is present at birth, some of that is occurs during childhood, and a lot of that occurs from puberty on. The most striking differences for sports are physical. That is why we seperated them. We can both agree on this as a fact, right?
So going forward, the questions I have are this.
If a trans child recieves puberty blockers, is there any difference in sports ability later on?
If a person upon reaching adulthood then goes on to get hormone treatment, is there any difference?
If a person decides to transition in adulthood, and is on hormones, with testerone levels as low as a biological female, is there any difference in performance?
Males are not necessarily dominant in al sports, so which ones would be affected?
Has any research been done on any of this?
Without being able to answer those questions you can't firm a fair policy and I suspect that what is fair would be different among those subgroups.
Ultimately we are talking about a very tiny grouo of people. Transgender, not drag queens or cross dressers, but people with gender dysphoria, a specific diagnosis, no different than being blind or paraplegic.
