I agree that the law shouldn't require surgeries to gain recognition as member of opposite sex,* which is coercive to dysphoric people and harmful to women's rights. The solution is that the law should not recognize the fiction of sex change under any circumstances.
What happens when the law pretends people can change sex?
In any setting where sex matters, it's inappropriate to treat male people as though they were female. In any setting where sex doesn't matter, why would we treat females and males differently to begin with?
So, either we undermine women's rights by treating males as though they were female in settings where sex matters or we needlessly 'gender' settings where sex doesn’t and really shouldn't matter. Let’s not do either of these things, eh?
People are quite free to dress and express themselves as they wish. People are free to hold extraordinary beliefs about gender. But this doesn't have anything to do with sex. The law should never lie about people's sex.
*Incidentally, UK law does not require hormones or surgery to gain a gender recognition certificate!
Exactly. Starting from an absurd premise and going from there isn’t reasonable. The entire idea of “recognition” is based on coercion because it requires the participation of everyone else. How did we get here?
Same now in NZ