[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Redway

the amount of ostracisation he’d face from people like you

I wouldn't ostracise someone for their conditions

Originally Posted by Redway

You’re dictating to someone how their inner sense of gender-identity should be in conformance with their genitals and calling them crazy for expressing free will. How is that not messing with their own perception of THEIR reality (not yours)?

I'm not saying anyone should say or think anything - they're allowed to be wrong when it comes down to it, we are our bodies. Their reality is the body they're born into. If there's a disconnect between what they are and which aspects of a social construct they "identify" as ... how is that any different to a thin person perceiving a fat person in the mirror? Would it be gaslighting to tell them that they're not fat?