well, but they do try -- El Al got sued by women for accommodating the requests of Orthodox Jewish men who didn't want to sit next to unrelated women (apparently they moved the women, not the men!). Many Christian believers try to get abortion outlawed. And Muslims in Western societies have done things like insist images of the Prophet should never be shown in classrooms, let alone cartoons making fun of him. the difference is that in all these other cases secular society pushes back, while in the case of gender ideology secular society has converted in large numbers and is in control of levers of power that can implement these demands by calling them not faith-based but reality-based ("trans women are women" is like the Nicene Creed -- an affirmation of faith -- but it is TREATED as if it were a fact like "rain is wet").
For me, it wouldn't be so difficult to go along with the pronouns of a "she-male" (a more honest term than "trans woman", I think). It would be easy because I would know that 90% of my co-workers understand that "she" is not a woman but a psychologically challenged individual. But the day will never come when I refer to someone as "they" or "them". THAT is where I draw the line. Of course, I don't have to do that since I am now retired.
Now, as for religion, I can sympathize because few people have my religious views. I believe in reincarnation and karma and a multidimensional God theory that Christians, etc., would not recognize. My religion, in fact, gives me a theory by which to regard trans people. In short, they are people who chose the wrong sex before they reincarnated. (We need to experience both maleness and femaleness before our incarnations are completed.) So I do have some sympathy for trans people -- that is, the people who are actually trans and not just jumping on the band-wagon. The people who are jumping on the band-wagon are pitiable.
Now, when a young woman showed up to inspect my home for my Section 8 application, and she was dressed like a man and calling herself "Timothy", I wanted to shake her shoulders and scream, "PLEASE TELL ME YOU HAVEN'T HAD YOUR BREASTS REMOVED!", but I restrained myself.
well, but they do try -- El Al got sued by women for accommodating the requests of Orthodox Jewish men who didn't want to sit next to unrelated women (apparently they moved the women, not the men!). Many Christian believers try to get abortion outlawed. And Muslims in Western societies have done things like insist images of the Prophet should never be shown in classrooms, let alone cartoons making fun of him. the difference is that in all these other cases secular society pushes back, while in the case of gender ideology secular society has converted in large numbers and is in control of levers of power that can implement these demands by calling them not faith-based but reality-based ("trans women are women" is like the Nicene Creed -- an affirmation of faith -- but it is TREATED as if it were a fact like "rain is wet").
For me, it wouldn't be so difficult to go along with the pronouns of a "she-male" (a more honest term than "trans woman", I think). It would be easy because I would know that 90% of my co-workers understand that "she" is not a woman but a psychologically challenged individual. But the day will never come when I refer to someone as "they" or "them". THAT is where I draw the line. Of course, I don't have to do that since I am now retired.
Now, as for religion, I can sympathize because few people have my religious views. I believe in reincarnation and karma and a multidimensional God theory that Christians, etc., would not recognize. My religion, in fact, gives me a theory by which to regard trans people. In short, they are people who chose the wrong sex before they reincarnated. (We need to experience both maleness and femaleness before our incarnations are completed.) So I do have some sympathy for trans people -- that is, the people who are actually trans and not just jumping on the band-wagon. The people who are jumping on the band-wagon are pitiable.
Now, when a young woman showed up to inspect my home for my Section 8 application, and she was dressed like a man and calling herself "Timothy", I wanted to shake her shoulders and scream, "PLEASE TELL ME YOU HAVEN'T HAD YOUR BREASTS REMOVED!", but I restrained myself.