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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can I self identify as older and collect SS checks?[/quote]

Not only should you be able to do that, but you should be able to identify as an entire GROUP of people, men and women and other, alike, and collect a check for each and every one of them!

I mean, it's no MORE absurd than a 38 year old man declaring that "she" is a woman now, and demanding everyone use "her" preferred pronoun and allow her access to women's bathrooms and locker rooms.

I mean, we've already crossed that Rubicon.... So how dare anyone tell you that you CANNOT identify as a group of 9 senior citizens? [/quote]
HAHA I completely agree. I am a liberal, but even I am baffled by this insanity about how you “feel” is what matters re: sex/gender. That nutty logic can and should apply to many other contexts. Otherwise, let’s admit that biology matters.[/quote]

Are you aware the transgender people who go to the bathroom of their birth sex often have tremendous problems.  MtF transexuals who use mens rooms are often subject to assault.   FtM transexuals in women's rooms are suspected if being their to commit assault. Its not an easy path,  and I don't think people just "declare" it for arbitrary reasons.   [/quote]

People with mental illnesses often have all sorts of problems interacting with society. My schizophrenic cousin can't get anyone to believe him that he's being persecuted by the government. He believes it absolutely, and it's terrifying for him. It affects how he behaves, but he doesn't get a pass to behave in socially unacceptable ways just because he's schizophrenic. He has to do his best to follow social norms and following existing laws (e.g. he doesn't get to carry a gun to feel safer from government goons out to get him).

Women are taught that men are dangerous (for good reason). Men are taught they can do whatever they wish to women with impunity. How about we work on fixing that so women no longer have good reason to fear male-presenting or male-bodied people, and men no longer think they can assault female-presenting or female-bodied people. That would make everyone's lives significantly better, and probably even resolve the very narrow issue of which bathroom people should use.[/quote]

it might. But meanwhile that is not the case, which is the main reason we have seperate gender bathrooms, and its a big problem for transgender people.  As for the comparison to schizophenia, that really says more about you. In fact most transgender people are completely aware of reality, and their reporting about their sense of identity seems to be accurate.  Their concerns are not about paranoid illusions.  The American Psychiatric Associaton appears to agree.

But I suppose psychiatrists, like climate scientists, etc should defer to the speculative arguments of internet users. [/quote]

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