ext_72873 ([identity profile] madwitch.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] taimatsu 2007-10-08 11:54 am (UTC)

I don't see that denying someone's self identification is valid, either. That, again, is up to the individual. You define as a woman (correct me if I'm wrong, but that seems to be the case), therefore that is what you are. There may be arguments over that in legal terms (I am uncertain on the current state of this), but to my mind if you identify as a woman then you are a woman. It is not down to other people to tell you that you aren't and never will be. Again, I do not know how the law sees this at present. I know how I think it should.

This is not to say that there aren't cases on the extreme ends of self identification that I don't consider a bit mad. But I'm never going to tell those people that I think that.

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