Yes
Odium I agree and will not argue against but will defend that point as well!
What I recommend instead is to argue that gender identity
is a personal spiritual determination similar to religious belief or affiliation.
So these should ALL be protected EQUALLY by law, both:
* the faith based gender identity
EQUALLY as
* the faith based beliefs of those who don't agree with
this or with homosexual orientation as unchanging
but see them as BEHAVIORAL choices that AREN'T PROTECTED
What will stop the discrimination back and forth,
as well as unconstitutional overreaching by imposing through govt,
is to recognize BOTH sides beliefs as equally FAITH BASED.
Then they CAN BE TREATED EQUALLY
and STOP this unconstitutional nonsense of favoring
ONE sides beliefs while penalizing the OTHER.
BULL to BOTH!
Internal Identity, whether about one's faith gender ID or orientation
involve spiritual or "faith-based" beliefs that are not proven or disproven
AND DON'T REQUIRE PROOF but are that person's private determination.
So that is not govt's
business to make ANY laws that establish such beliefs, either way, for or against!
[But yes, if anyone claims to have scientific proof of one side or the other,
that COULD be used to change people's minds or beliefs. But they are not
required to because faith based beliefs do not have to be proven by science
to protect them by law under free exercise of religion; they just can't be
exercised or imposed on others in ways that violate rights or laws either,
but scientific proof is NOT required of Christians to protect THEIR beliefs
from discrimination, so neither should Atheists or LGBT have to prove
their beliefs scientifically in order to exercise and express their identity freely.]