Something doesn't have to directly affect me personally in order for me to have an opinion on it.

You are right that it's none of my business what your personal attributes are. I don't know you, and I have no reason to know what your sex, gender or race are.

But if you were to volunteer the information and say you're a 25-year-old Indian woman, and I meet you and it's obvious you're actually a white 50-year-old man, then we have a problem, don't we?

You're right that it probably doesn't affect me personally. I could just shrug it off and happily continue with my day. But you still can't force me to view you as 25-year-old Indian woman. And if you force me to refer to you as one, you're forcing me to lie.

The issue with the new Scottish law is that it enables people to legally change their sex. But isn't the whole point with the transgender thing that gender and sex are two different things? It's like the difference between changing your national identity and changing the country you're born in.

I was born in England, and I live here, so I'm British. But I could go and live in the US and change my citizenship to American. That's fine. But I would still be British in terms of my heritage. I can't change my birth cirtificate to say I was born in the US.

That's the key difference with the new law. In Scotland, it's now the case that in a court of law, somebody would be compelled to refer to someone as their new sex. That doesn't affect me directly in my life right now, but it could potentially affect others in some situations. For example, if a woman has been raped by a man, and he legally changes his sex to female, in court the woman has to say they she was raped by a woman. It doesn't make any sense.

With race, it's a tricky one. If someone is mixed race, they have the right to identify as either race, or both. But someone of a single race doesn't have the right to identify as another race, do they? As far as I'm aware, I'm purely white. Wouldn't it be offensive to black people if I were to identify as black?

Similarly, many biological women are offended that some men think that womanhood is merely a costume one can wear, or a feeling.

And when people demand that other refer to them with particular pronouns, they are forcing the issue. They are making it other people's business.

And there is a problem with saying you ARE something because you FEEL like it. If I say I feel like a cat, how do I know? How do I know how a cat feels?

"Anyway if you still disagree I would think less of you and that means the world for me would be lessened but that's my problem not yours."

You're right, that very much is your problem, not mine. If you think less of me because I have a different opinion to you, there's nothing I can do about that.

The key thing is, I'm not forcing you to agree with me or pretend that you do.