The right to mis-define oneself

[henryp]

I really don't understand what the hub-bub is all about.  I ask people to call me and think of me as Rhythm, or DJ, and they just do, no questions asked.  I don't have to establish that I actually -am- Rhythm...or DJ......so why is anyone balking at what Jenner wants to be referred to as or thought of as?  It's the simplest thing in the world...to allow a person to self define....we do it all the time.  We've got a member here on these boards who is very plainly a woman, spend any amount of time with her and you'll see that she is........doesn't really matter that she was born swinging richard.....and no one gives -her- any shit for it.........

I agree on the name front.  I called Sean Combs "Puff Daddy", then "P. Diddy"  then just "Diddy".  Caitlyn is a breeze compared to that nonsense.

I think the complexity is that it's not just the name and pronouns, some of these women want the full boat.  Fallon Fox, for example, is an MMA fighter.  That's when you really start to test how you feel about it all.  Are you comfortable with a man transistioning to a woman, and then punching other women unconscious?  

That's obviously a rare extreme example, but the point is that this isn't just about "identity".