I'm aware that such a thing as gender reassignment surgeries exist. I'm unaware of a "push" (by whom?) to be able to change your gender on legal documents, but again not sure how having a dick would be of great import on any of these documents.
It's not just "having" a penis. It's a lot more than that.
It changes your hormone levels, it takes chunks of meat off of your body, it removes organs, etc.
If someone can change, there literal biological sex on paper (not in reality because that it biologically impossible) then thousands of criminals would be getting away with crimes, and if someone comes into the emergency room, and their papers say male, but they are actually female, it's going to give the doctors a harder time to help with them (and doctors are already stressed out enough as it is).
So, yea, the truth is pretty important when it comes to your legal documents.
I know what gender reassignment surgery is, I'm just not sure what your objection is to it. I'd make a guess but even for me, it'd be way to straw-y a straw man.
Your concern is that if someone goes into the emergency room, like from a car accident or with a broken arm, that a doctor will not be able to administer care because of a box ticked on the form that doesn't match the person's genitals?
Can you give me an actual example of what is at risk if you decide you want to tick "F" instead of "M" on any form?
Well, if the Trans movement is trying to change their gender surgically, and hormonally, then that would have to change language as well, and as we all know, when you try to twist basic English grammar, or any other languages grammar, it doesn't work out that well. Think about how changing grammar could affect court systems and school systems. It's something that we don't need and would confuse a lot of people even more in their very busy day-to-day lives.
I HAVE been thinking about it and cannot for the life of me come up with an example where society unravels based on this concern. THat's why I've repeatedly asked you to tell me what YOU think will happen. So far, four times now, your only response is "think about it! Wouldn't it be weird!" My point is that language changes all the time, that words have tons of different meanings, and whether or not someone has a dick or a pussy in their pants is really not my business, so it doesn't have any affect on my day. And it doesn't have any on yours either, it's just something to complain about. Unless of course you can point out how your concern is valid, but so far it's like "It'd be confusing!" but no real reason. I'll ask the question again:
If we decide that people can identify their own gender rather than strictly stick with genital configuration, how does that affect your day to day life in a practical way? You started out by saying "language," to which I pointed that there are 7000 different words for "woman" already and we manage to function globally as a species. I also asked what happens if we decide that woman is a word someone applies to themselves, and you say "Look at that woman over there, she's wearing an interesting jacket," would someone in your life suddenly be so confused that they had no idea what you were saying. You didn't answer.
Once you jumped away from language, you went to surgery risks...which has nothing to do with the word woman, and is not in any way distinct from elective surgeries in general, all surgeries have risks. I'm still waiting for how anyone getting a sex change operation somehow compromises national security.
I know your entitled self wouldn't understand, because all you do is sit around and watch CNN all day, so you can afford to change the entire way you live your day to day live, but the rest of us have, jobs, families, school, and futures to look forward to, and we don't have time to sit around all day, worried about misgendering people.
Awful rich for a teenager who still lives with his parents to call anyone they don't know on the internet "entitled." WHAT on earth would require me to change the "entire way" I live my day to day life? This subject literally has never impacted my life other than the two times someone said "It's actually he," to which I said "Oh, sorry, no problem!" and we all went about our lives. You have started almost every topic on the matter here, mister high school student, kinda sounds to me like you are the one sitting around all day worrying about it.
How does what someone else has on their license or on their medical records in ANY WAY affect your personal life at all?
Like I said before, it could lead to more murders, and more deaths, so yea that affects my personal life.
So your answer to the "M or F on the drivers license" is really "IT COULD LEAD TO MORE MURDERS AND DEATH"? Really? How?
