Who truly can judge us? If our actions are not aggressive or threatening to others, if we are honest and have empathy who has the right to define us.
If someone defines themselves do I have a right to challenge it? I don’t believe I have.
Do I follow all the tick boxes I was told I am from birth? Nope.
I was born seemingly into the Christian, in fact CofE faith, yet my life experience allowed me to challenge that, and I can honestly say I personally hold no religious beliefs, I now say none, when asked.
I was born into a working class family, and began my working career as a working class man, but through opportunity and luck I changed careers, and was then told I had a middle class career, did I suddenly define myself as middle class, no.
I was defined as right handed, and forced to live as such, but being forced by convention, which I truly was, meant I developed major issues with my abilities such as writing, drawing, painting, creativity and even music. I now though write with my right hand, do not define myself as right handed. I play snooker and pool left handed, as well as shooting a gun and drawing a bow. My right arm is predominant in strength but only because I endured years of hateful teachers forcing my development against my own nature.
So when someone tells me – if they trust me enough to do so, that they are transgender, I accept their word. They are the ones who know themselves, it is not my place in any way to tell them how they ‘should’ or even ‘must’ feel.
So I do not accept that people are only what society expects them to be, I do not attest that it is society’s right to define them. It certainly is not mine.
I do not believe that people can only be what they were seen to be born to be.
I know there will be people arguing over toilets and sport.
The toilet issue is easy, make all toilets (at least those that remain public) like disabled, individual not gender. Disabled toilets mostly are gender neutral. We don’t have an option to complain, because thats just how it is.
Sports,well given I have no interest in any sport,on that I truly cannot comment.
Simples, says Simon.
Jonesy, simply a human 