I have never disputed that people by their nature all want autonomy. I am disputing the bullshit notion that you can or must limit rights to some set that you derive from this.
Where is the limit in
flash is a free man with a right to his life, liberty, and property; Henry is a free man with a right to his life liberty and property; neither have any claim on the other?
It's there, minimal & sensible. It is: flash doesn't get to do diddly with another's life, liberty, and property; Henry doesn't get to do diddly with another's life, liberty, and property.
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You hae the right to be treated in accord with the gender that you know yourself to be, and nobody has the right to tell Henry that he is not a he because he knows himself to be a he... no?
No, you have a right to define yourself as you like becuz it's your life, your liberty, your property. You don't have a right to compel my agreement or my understanding or my association with you. My life, liberty, and property are mine.
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You don't grant any right of autonomy to other people in this matter because you don't agree with them, so you carve youself out a right to overrule them.
As I say, have said many times: if you pretend, or actually, as a man, believe you're a woman, that's no skin offa my nose. It's none of my business. What is my business is when you demand I acknowledge you're a woman, cuz you're not. You get to do with yourself as you please; I get to do with myself as I please.
Neither of us has a claim on the other's life.
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you carve youself out a right to overrule them.
There's nuthin' in
your life, liberty, and property is yours; my life, liberty, and property is mine; neither of us have a claim on the other that overrules you pretendn' or believin' you, as a man, are a woman.
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nobody has the right to tell Henry that he is not a he because he knows himself to be a he... no?
That's the skepdick argument. As I am a guy -- been one since before I was born; will be one right up to my death in a cat house -- yes, it would irksome to be called a girl. Do you have right to address me as
Miss? You do. And I have a right to not associate with you. I don't have a right to compel you to address me as
Sir.