Self-identity doesn’t matter

The catchphrase for transgender people basically comes down to “I identify as male/female/non-binary/foxgender”. People identify as a lot of things, rich, poor, Caucasian, animal rights activist, gay, poly.

Now, to be trans you have to transition from one sex to the other and is the transition period in between. This means changing your image and body so it matches the sex you were not born as so you live as a man/woman in society. A trans woman will have female hormones and looks like a woman- people will then define her using female pronouns if they see her as a woman.

As with all identities it depends on the recognition of other people to be validated. There is a Caucasian tik toker who goes around a university campus dressed an a caricature of different cultures, obviously people found it to be racist - now even this man legitimately identified as a Vietnamese farmer, people would still get offended regardless of his identity beliefs. Now, if a Vietnamese person or someone who looked Vietnamese pulled this stunt, it would not have been taken negatively.

CNN reported a man of Indian descent who got into medical school by saying he was black. You can read the article online but he basically changed his appearance and name got welcomed to an organisation for black students. He then stated that he started experiencing negative stereotypes associated with being black - but as you can see, if he identified as an African American man, he could have lived a life as one (hiding the fact he was born of Indian heritage). Before you ask “if he was living as an African American”, why could he identify as Indian? - his parents were Indian and he has that truth backing his identity. Bringing this back to a trans perspective, butch lesbians who pass as men might get treated as men in society, but that doesn’t change their identity as women - after all even the buffest butch woman can pull down their pants and if they have female anatomy people are going to agree they are women and back their identity, their identity has something tangible to back it up.

For all the “anyone can be trans”, “you don’t need a reason or to prove you’re a woman” crowd, what is backing your claims, a Caucasian man insisting he’s Japanese would probably be disregarded and laughed at unless he can prove he has either Japanese ancestry or citizenship. Why is that, when someone claims they are a woman we must irrefutable affirm their womanhood regardless of their appearance, hormones, and sex. I don’t believe self identity is valid, if you have a female brain trapped inside a male’s body - it could be verified via an assessment by a psychiatrist.

The question is, is having female hormones and a psychiatrist verified gender dysphoria enough to be a woman? Is legally being a woman enough to be considered a woman?

I personally think passing as a woman, living in society and legally being a woman is what it takes. Obviously, it’s extremely difficult to pass without HRT and potentially surgeries so that is a sub-prerequisite.

That’s why the emphasis on self identity is misplaced and give haters fuel, after all it just takes you to identify as a woman, to be butt naked in the woman’s change rooms.

Now I ask your thoughts, enlighten me, just because someone identifies and ‘believes’ they are women, but neither have the hormones, psychiatric verification for a medical condition, bodily attributes nor the anatomy of a woman, are they truly women (Or men for the lads in here)?