[peter12]

Originally Posted by jammies

Top-down policies aren't created ex nihilo, this is an evolutionary idea born of a revolution that has been happening over the last 40-odd years. Like any other set of rules created by humanity, it is flawed, but arguing against it on the basis that it is social engineering of a totalitarian nature is no more than a blindness to ALL law and regulation being social engineering of one sort or another, and that the lack of law or regulation in certain areas can be equally significant in shaping behaviour.

Just for example, laws around maternity leave have been created and have changed over time, and the lack of laws in this area in the past was a definite disincentive to complete female emancipation. There is a cost and a cultural effect in continuing to do nothing different for the transgendered, just like there would have been a cost and cultural effect in never implementing mat leave laws. Keeping the status quo is a choice with consequences, and feels like oppression to someone marginalized by it, so it is, like most things, an argument between what path does the most good and least harm.

I actually expected more from you than this historicist pablum.