Yeah, we're reviving this topic.
Why?
Because one of Trump's ads goes like this.
So, Mr Trump, as a ex-transgender -> genderfluid person, I have opinions. Here they are.
First, I don't support they/them. I support you.
I also strongly support roll purges. If it were up to Kamala, everyone who moves from Richmond, VA to Tucson, AZ would have sorta shadow left behind that votes (Democrat, of course). And they/them is accurate, because name or sex changes leave behind spare names that can vote on mail-in ballots. We need to close such cheating.
Second, I don't support sex changes. I do support right to personal expression. Sex change (oh sorry, "gender affirming surgery") is not an actual surgery, by that I mean it does not do what it proposes to do. A real change gives a male a viable vagina and a womb that can bear children. A "sex change" does not. So thousands of impressionable boys who want to be like their mothers are cheated out of their reproductive rights. Nuh. If you want to be a physically a woman, without the pregnancy part that's a physical feminization surgery. Not a sex change.
But (1) it needs to be 18+ with no nonsense aboutmale development being some kinda emergency, as this is 100% an informed decision. (2) Absolutely no childhood "correction" of gender for intersex people. I have heard a common complaint among people who are intersex, one who said they had a vagina that actually got wet, and the doctor effectively sterilized them, by closing it up and turning their oversized clitoris into a makeshift penis. (3) No taxpayer funding of this nonsense. Train people at birth control clinics to do it. People should be able to make the connection that they are sterilizing themselves. It should be an informed choice, and out of your own pocket.
Now, let's talk about gendered spaces. Sexual harassment is still a thing that is not tolerated. Sexual crimes (rape, child molestation, voyeurism, etc) is still a thing that is not tolerated. As for the bathroom and changing room issue, all changing rooms have stalls to change in (public changing is allowed, but with informed consent of all students), bathrooms have stalls to pee in, and showering is not a communal activity unless you are washing each other (in which case, you're probably touching each other's sexual organs anyway, and ummmm yeah that's fine if everyone has consent).
As far as sports go, in some ways I'm even less restrictive, in some ways, I'm more. If a boy wants to be on girl's lacrosse or field hockey, let him. They will have to agree to full immersion as a female player (no visible facial hair, shaved legs and armpits, makeup, and dress code), and this is only allowed for team sports. Competitive sports, they are listed as a male. For work, church, etc, yes you can present as female in regard to clothing, but we don't take leave of common sense. Common sense says that we do protect people from being beat up (by not sending people who pass as women into men's rooms) and do protect people from being molested. Why is why, I think we need to phase out gendered restrooms. This goes to the previous bit about being molested. While TERFs think that wholly female spaces are a possibility, the reality is that if the aim is to pee, either allowing crossdressers and trans ppl into women's rooms (been shown to have pervert problems) or making all restrooms multi-gender is the only approach that works. Chivalry as a concept works. Remember chivalry? What happens to "transgender" creeps who try to harass women by sneaking into the room.... if it no longer is a women's room but has four guys at urinals outside the women's stalls watching that creep? I'll tell you. These posers get beat up.
I do not approve of the gender separation, I do however approve of cultural gendered spaces. That is to say, Islam has a very toxic male/female dynamic (currently the Taliban wants to ban women even speaking) because men don't get exposed to women at all, and they grow up unchallenged with macho culture, and never remotely deal with women. A woman can go to an all-male space (and there should be spaces where men learn how to be men), but she has to conduct herself like the men. You know, cheering about the hockey game, hair tied back, no manicures, loud burping, etc. Ditto for female spaces. You wanna go, immerse yourself with the other women.
Lastly, we need an end to poor actors. Trying to fine people for misgendering? Hell, no. I was in a restaurant during a Pride meetup, and these two old queens gave a waitress grief because a trans male was mixed in with a trans female group. She didn't know. She made the wrong assumption. She was probably fired after her shift.
Our society needs to grow with the assumption that there are male or female dominant spaces, and you don't need to mangle your body to be part of them, but no talking about fashion during a hockey night.