[Throw6away]

Wow, I’m gobsmacked at your example. Are you really arguing that transgender people are somehow abusing and disrespecting others by asking to be acknowledged as they wish to be? Would you be ‘abused’ if I mentioned my same-sex spouse and it violated your assumed reality?

[kkjjkgjjgg]

You can ask and it is polite to adhere to the wish, but you can not demand it.

Ultimately you have no right to intrude on my brain, sorry.

"Would you be ‘abused’ if I mentioned my same-sex spouse and it violated your assumed reality?"

Probably not because I could see that your spouse has the same sex as you, so it wouldn't violate my perception? I don't get the point of your example.

The point of the "publicly state you believe in something that is obviously not true" is a symbolic subjugation of the person made to do it. It is "swearing in" to the ideology. Like Gallileo announcing publicly that the sun revolves around the earth.

[spacemanmatt]

> it wouldn't violate my perceptions

what right do you actually claim to protect your perceptions? lordy, what a mess.

[kkjjkgjjgg]

Lol wtf - you don't think people have a right to their own thoughts and perceptions? I have no words. A mess indeed - but not on my side. Enjoy your next brainwashing session, as that seems to be your thing.