The really unlikable
It seems like only yesterday that no one would have said anything this stupid even for a hefty bribe.
It’s nothing to do with “governing.” It’s knowing.
News flash: women need to know which people are men, partly for our own safety. We don’t think we have a “right” to “govern” and we don’t consider it “governing” to know the difference between women and men.
We’re not the ones trying to “govern” people on this subject. It’s the public relations arm of trans ideology that’s so keen on ordering everyone to say men are women if they say they are. It’s trans ideology that polices our words, not the other way around.
And yes of course it’s our business. See above.
Being Jewish isn’t some sort of restrictive box. There’s a spectrum from Jew to non-Jew. And it doesn’t have to be a binary. Drew Barrymore and Madonna happily celebrate various aspects of the Jewish identity without fully transitioning. Meanwhile, Larry David struggled with his spirituality, thinking he’d been AJAB when he might actually have been AGAB. For a time, being AGAB appeared to provide him with greater happiness.
Notwithstanding, given the proportion of TIMs who are currently in prisons having been convicted of violent crimes (often of a sexual nature), women have every right to police this issue. If it’s anyone’s business, it’s theirs.
The parallel I see between being Jewish and trans identity claims is that often it’s less about how you think about yourself and more about how other people see you. There are any number of stories of people who consider themselves Jewish but who were not considered Jewish by the authorities in Israel, for example. I recall one young man who was motivated to move from the US to Israel and join the Israeli Army, only to be told that his mother wasn’t Jewish by birth, so he couldn’t register as Jewish. The Israeli historian Shlomo Sand has documented his futile effort to get declared a non-Jew in Israel, but the authorities cite his family background and reject his request. It shouldn’t matter, but it does matter in certain important situations. Many times, self-declaration of Jewish identity is not sufficient; try getting married by a Conservative or Orthodox rabbi with only self-identification.
The difference, of course, is that being considered a Jew depends on which of various sets of conflicting arbitrary rules one looks at, while being a woman is a matter of biology.