Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25951143-20150101110046/@comment-25814498-20171201200848

If your brain were transplanted into someone else's body, that would not then make you that person. It would, however, make you that person's gender. Unless you were to argue, for instance, that the chromosomes in your brain are still the same as those of your original body, or that somewhere in the continuity of your life after birth, you were biologically the gender which you identify as; nevertheless, such an argument still places biology before self-identity.

Your brain is a biological entity. If I self-identified as brainless (feel free to make a joke about it), that would not then make it true, and you would not be obliged to refer to me as brainless from that point onwards (again, mock me all you want), simply because I identify as such.

Gender is not a social construct, it is a biological fact, and viewing it as anything other than this leads to the problems present in the next paragraph.

Because of the reasons I spoke to you about on your GTK, before you had a tantrum and refused to engage anymore after I refuted all of your points. There is no reason not to allow people to change absolutely any biological fact about themselves, as well as the way society views these people, if gender identity comes before biological sex. As I stated before on your GTK, which you refused to acknowledge, gender-identity is no different than species-identity, or age-identity, or even person-identity. If you believe that men who identify as women should be allowed to change in female dressing rooms, or go into female toilets, then why shouldn't 40-year-old men who identify as 6-year-old girls are allowed to go to primary schools, change in children's dressing rooms and play games with children in parks? Why shouldn't men who identify as women be allowed to beat the ever living shit out of them in MMA or boxing fights with all of their bone structure and muscle mass advantages intact?

Skin and eye colour don't affect you toilet habits, as far as I'm aware; sex, on the other hand, does. Different toilets are meant to protect women and girls from sexual predators, who, by following your logic, could easily identify as women in order to gain access to the bathrooms in question.

Because I don't want to refer to Otherkin as dragons and werewolves, or 40-year-old men as 6-year-old girls, and I don't believe you do either. Facts don't care about your feelings, and just because you feel one way does not change the truth, nor does it make you any less of a hypocrite by not following your logic fully.