This election has forced me to come off a hardline stance on so many viewpoints I have. It's not like I've flipped my position, I've definitely revisited things and I think it's made me a more well rounded person.

My old position regarding Caitlyn Jenner, for instance, was this one. "No, you're not a woman."

Simple biology won't let me come down from that. The difference between "gender" and "sex" is a distinction that was never mean to be the "scientific" vehicle to accommodate a series of surgical procedures that didn't even exist 50 years ago.

But I asked myself, if I met this person in real life, would I actually have the gall to treat them as a male when they've done everything they can to present themselves as the opposite?

No. If I met Caitlyn Jenner in real life, I would treat her like a woman, simply out of my inherent respect and concern for their happiness. It's got nothing to do with SJWs... they actually make me want to be an asshole just to throw it in their face. They actually make the situation worse for people like Caitlyn because of how they push people with a "take it or leave it" totalitarian approach.

But if I see someone who walks, talks, and acts like a woman, I'll treat them like a woman to the extent that I reasonably can.

It doesn't mean I've got nothing to say if the situation begs the question. (thinking of transgender boxers obliterating women, and I've seen at least one example of someone dressed as a woman in all regards... but then sporting a beard...).

But there's definitely worse than Jenner wearing moderate and relatively reserved women's attire.

I'll save my "cause an awkward situation because I need to be real for a sec" social points for when I see that.

The "I sexually identify as an A1 warthog attack heliocopter" is pertinent because it's not even that hyperbolic. Furry shit, anime shit, free the nipple and public nudity shit, people passing off sex props for public attire, spirit cooking bitches playing with lamb's blood... this shit used to be properly called hedonism.

And now that it's becoming more and more common, we've seen examples where even more nefarious shit (pedophilia) could be nesting in these "progressive" social currents.

Focusing on an otherwise normal clothing choices because they used to be wearing clothing of the opposite gender... doesn't get you far because you're attacking something where the bad consequences are too attenuated when you've got real examples of flagrant abuse of our growing social acceptance.

As such, it would make you look more like an asshole than it would convince anyone any which way about the subject.