who they really
No. This is one of the items they get so entirely wrong.
Starting at 1:07:
…and I think that recognizing that people know best who they themselves are and recognizing and taking at face value who someone says that they are is important and is the decent way to interact with other people.
In ordinary circumstances, yes, but it takes only a few seconds of thought to come up with exceptions.
These days, though, it doesn’t really even need a few seconds: trans ideology is the looming leering unmistakable exception to this pseudo-rule. People don’t always know best who they themselves are, especially when they’ve been trained to think that a manufactured idenniny is “who they really are” in any dispute with the physical reality of who they really are.
The inherent internal contradiction is so obvious here.
If we grant that people have supreme knowledge of their own internal identity, then I can say confidently that these individuals have no idea what it means to be a woman, for the simple reason that they cannot discern the inner reality of women to compare themselves to, any more than I can perceive their own inner reality. The only way around this is to leave unspoken that trans individuals are somehow unique in their uniqueness, so that they can ‘know’ what being a woman is, without it being possible for anyone else to see what they are.
They’re meta-unique, aka miraculous.