This. And being forced to speak/pretend untruths, especially by the state, isn't being asked a harmless courtesy, it's Orwellian. It's 2 + 2 = 5 with a spoonful of 'keep sweet' to cover the bitter taste of authoritarian subjugation.
I do not understand how people can see “keep sweet” for the abusive statement that it is, yet not realize that “be kind” is the exact same thing. Maybe if we had a Netflix deal and made a documentary about all those crimes “that never happens” and titled it Be Kind, we could get the same kind of traction. (Honestly though, I wish I had the money to do that)
People are proving to be suckers for rebranding. Much like how people can see incels for the entitled creeps they are (even while some still make excuses for them or try to be sympathetic), but incels in drag tantruming about the same things but also demanding access to women's bathrooms/changing rooms and free boob jobs are Stunning and Brave.
And they’re never concerned for women’s rights actually taken away: the right to single sex facilities where privacy, dignity and consent is important. The right not to have a belief forced on you. The right not to use compelled speech in defiance of what you know to be truth and reality. The right to organise as women. The right even to call yourself a woman and exclude men from that definition;
I’m getting really sick of the narrative of “rights”. What they are looking for is privilege, to take what isn’t theirs, to disregard the safety of girls, limit their opportunities, and dictate how others act based on their wishes rather than reality.
Yes, even if your son is gay and wouldn’t hurt a fly, he’s still not a girl. Forcing other girls to accept him as a girl puts them in a position of not being able to call out some AGP coming in the women’s locker room to creep on them.
Forcing others to play into what you wish reality was, rather than adjusting to actual reality is narcissistic control in the extreme. And the punishments for not complying are so coercive I can’t see the requests as anything but malevolent.
It’s not to be “treated like a human being”. They already were. They’re looking to be treated with a greater deference than anyone else is afforded and to be handed things that others worked very hard for.