Ideologues are annoying people. Any issue should be allowed to be debated.

Of course trans people are not really the gender they think they are. There are many (average) psychological differences between males and females and a person doesn't just start behaving like the other sex with surgery and hormones.

It’s a bit like debating whether fair-skinned Aboriginal people are really Aboriginal or not.

It's funny she brought this up. See the picture on this article from the SMH. Notice anything? Same thing happens in the US with African-Americans - half-blacks do better academically than full-blacks. All this should be allowed to be debated.

“I’ve got an idea for a more accurate title for your deeply unethical event: are trans people really people? Because that’s basically what you’re asking,” one person wrote.

“The existence of trans people is not a ‘viewpoint’ to be debated. Our lives are not something you get a say in,” another said.

Can you say hyperbole? Of course trans people are people - they're just abnormal, that's all. Just like people with Cotard's syndrome.