Transgenderism and transformation

William Heidbreder | New York, NY
Comment published on New York Times online blog, ”Trump Administration Eyes Defining Transgender Out of Existence,” October 21, 2018:

Are people whatever they are by virtue of biology, or sociology?
Is a primitive cellular mass with human DNA a person endowed with a person's rights (making abortion murder)?
Is homosexuality innate?
Are people with deviant behavior innately mentally ill?
Are smartness and stupidity genetic?
Are differences between white and black people genetic?
Are the Jews a race, their culture determined not by history and religion but biology?
And are gender and gender identity purely biological? 

Such things may go together. They affirm certain social distinctions as inflexibly necessary. One reason may just be that some conservatives want people and things to stay as they are. As if to say: You can be creative, but not with Being itself. Yet, what else is art, or politics?  

Such affirmations can be exclusionary, even meaning, as they did in Germany. the elimination from society of certain population groups, which could be destined to at least an involuntary extermination, or de facto death, as in carceral institutions or the return to danger of refugees.

No one proposes eliminating either sex, but what about gender-abnormals? How does a law enforce normality by outlawing abnormality?  

And in this case, does anyone really know what makes a man a man and a woman a woman? (Our knowledge of both is very incomplete). Are their life possibilities spelled out in advance? How dreary are gender normativities!

Why not instead make your identity a work of art?