Because someone "self identifies" doesn't make it so and doesn't require me to agree with them or support the delusion. If it's that easy, then I "self identify as the President of the United States. I'll be moving in next week, tell Joe to get out.
People are willing (but obviously not everyone) to agree that someone has changed their public gender.
Age and gender dysphorias are legit disorders according to the American Psychiatric Association. Nothing you or I can do about it.
I don't see it as any more ridiculous. In fact even less so. Men simply are not women. No amount of make believe or drugs or surgery or self identifying make it so. Any citizen in the U. S. might actually become President.
The analogy isn't applicable. There's a constitutional process for becoming president. Believe what you want, support what you want, fight or vote to change the things you don't like. Democracy. I don't know about you, but there are things that I have to accept and tolerate about society with which I don't agree. Maintaining anger, frustration, angst -- any negative emotion -- over changes over which we have no control can have negative effects on emotional, physical, and mental health.
