Instead of Advancing Their Rights at the Expense of Women’s, the Transgender Community Should Advocate for Recognition of a Distinct Identity

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Instead of Advancing Their Rights at the Expense of Women’s, the Transgender Community Should Advocate for Recognition of a Distinct Identity
Can eye surgery make you Korean?

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>  White influencer ‘identifies as Korean’ after getting eye surgery - [Metro](https://metro.co.uk/2021/06/29/oli-london-identifies-as-korean-after-getting-eye-surgery-14844256/)

Neither can surgery on the genitalia make you a woman.

But it doesn’t make you a bad person either.
 
People should be free to make decisions about their bodies and identities. However, respect for personal choices does not mean the abandonment of common sense. It also doesn't imply the right to force others to acknowledge or act upon their identity through state intervention, such as DEI mandates or media censorship.

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> Transgender women are not legally women, Britain’s highest court has declared in a landmark ruling - <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/16/supreme-court-rule-trans-women/">The Telegraph</a>, 16 Apr 2025

Instead of advancing their rights at the expense of women’s rights, the transgender community could advocate for recognition of a distinct identity.

From being born male, through transition, to building a new life — the identity of the transitioned woman is unique and deserving of respect. However, insisting on being identical to biological women borders on internalized transphobia and veers into misogyny when driven by extreme woke demagoguery.

> Kemi Badenoch: the era of Keir Starmer telling us women can have penises has come to an end - <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/16/supreme-court-rule-trans-women/">The Telegraph</a>

Transgender people lost when they handed their cause over to radicals who, after imposing the idea of all-powerful social constructs, quickly moved on to eroding women’s rights and the protection of childhood.

For years, we’ve seen a woke crusade aimed at denying the basic realities of nature, which has done nothing but undermine the transgender rights movement.

<center><img src="https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/davideastman/23wCbb3CmSj2FrStJiT8TfrTknRGGeG5YBuvtRJNxh7cm8ne5yTch9kovS6qQEMpGHZep.png" alt="" /></center><center>*Discussion on X: [@NannaOfDragons](https://x.com/NannaOfDragons/status/1912510823890575681)*</center>

A conflict with women’s rights was never inevitable, however. Look at Asian nations like Nepal, India, and Thailand, where transgender women are respected as the third gender, not claimed to be real women.

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> A passport marked “O” for “other”, the transgender activist became the first Nepali citizen to travel with documents marked with the country’s legally recognized “third gender” - [The Telegraph](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/feb/12/trans-rights-meet-the-face-of-nepals-progressive-third-gender-movement), 12 Feb 2016

Rather than trying to redefine biological sex, transgender individuals should advocate for recognition of the two T-genders as distinct and legitimate legal identities. That could offer a more sustainable way forward for transgender community.

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*Joanne Rowling's <a href="https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1912569600782254458">reaction</a> to Britain’s highest court ruling that transgender women are not legally women on April 16, 2025*
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