Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

You're trying to force your perception of who you are onto others and at that point you're just begging others to validate your identity for you. You can't do that. It's like, okay, you identify as a male even though you have the body of a female. You can do that. That's fine. But why do I have to identify you as something I don't see you as. You can see me as a 'harry ****' for that but I don't see me as a harry ****.