How Do You Respond to Transphobic Arguments?/I'm back!

[Esquilax]

So what I'm saying is not that transgender people are bad people, nor am I saying that they choose their treatment option - it's in fact prescribed to them by physicians, but what I am saying is that your argument that "if someone identifies this way others need to respect that" is not how it works at all. That's like saying if I identify myself as aboriginal you have to respect me as being a traditional land owner - you'd have every right to point out to me there's not a drop of aboriginal blood in my DNA, and in the same way a person with a normal set of chromosomes has a definite biological gender, and the fact they identify with the opposite one doesn't negate that fact.

Do you... seriously not see how bad that comparison is? An aboriginal's rights as a traditional land owner don't come from blood, but from the factual case that they literally were the owners of the land. Genetics don't come into it at all, except insofar as bloodlines are one of the ways that we handle inheritance. There's literally no analogue between the two concepts.