fixer said:
DarkBrandon01 said:
No transgender person is claiming their DNA can be changed. Psychologically, they are the gender opposite of their body. This is not delusion, it's just the way they were born. This should be common sense. End of story. Let people live the way they want to live.
You literally gave an example of delusion in attempting to define something as not delusional.
Besides that… there may be cases of " androgen sensitivity ". There are also people born with 6 fingers; some with sensitivity to lactose, etc.
None of these other biological aberrations are getting an entire political movement behind it and federal statues reconfigured to suit them.
If I'm born with 6 fingers, but inside I just " know" I only have 5, or vice versa, then it's up to me ( not everyone else on the planet to create a safe space for me) to deal with this psychological issue.
This analogy would make sense if gender was merely a physical phenomenon. It is psychological as well. This is a fact.
Trans people are not asking others to deny reality with them. They are just asking that people to accept the reality of their own mind.
Since we probably won't agree about the definition, forget about gender for a minute. Lets just use masculinity and femininity. If someone appears masculine on the outside, but then claims to have a feminine personality (and they are not lying), then it is a FACT that they have a feminine personality.
If you then try to claim that they are delusional for having a feminine personality, this would not make sense. Personality is a subjective experience. To be delusional about something, you have to deny objective facts. You can't be delusional about something that is subjective.
If your favorite pizza flavor is pineapple, that may seem like an odd opinion, but no matter how odd this opinion is, it cannot be a delusional opinion because it is subjective. In the same sense, the psychological aspect of gender is subjective. One cannot be delusional about their own gender experience. Psychology is subjective, biology is objective.
You can think trans people are icky/gross all you want. But it is not logically correct to call them delusional.