A tangible change
Wait hold the presses it turns out that identifying as is not enough. It all depends on…er…um…
Whether they transitioned or not depends on if they made a tangible change either medically or through documentation (social transition). Just asserting your identity is absolutely your right, but it doesn’t mean you transitioned.
It doesn’t? But we’ve been told and told and told it does. We’ve been told that just asserting your identity is absolutely all it takes, and that any skepticism is a phobic crime against humanity.
It seems it’s going to turn out that that rule holds for trans people (definitely including those who just assert their identity) and not for former trans people who decide to stop being trans.
How can it not bother or embarrass people to make arguments like this in public?
When do they cross the threshold and say, “Maybe I need to have a real think about this”?
I am reminded, rather starkly, of a certain sect of Israeli rabbis who hold that converts who fail to hold the mitzvahs (or at least those mitzvahs the rabbis care about) in fact never converted in the first place and never were Jewish to begin with.
And I have been told that, because I became an atheist, I was never a Christian in the first place.