If I were to argue that a woman who identifies as a woman is a man , for some reason , would that be hate speech ? It ' s absurd . I mean , if someone says , There ' s no such thing as a homosexual person , only heterosexuals struggling with samesex attraction , I may think that ' s stupid and a harmful idea if it were mainstream . But it ' s not hate speech . Hate speech would be more along the lines of Gay people should die . I would not react with OMG , that person is denying my existence and literally erasing me ! Why ? Because I know that I ' m a homosexual woman . They know they ' re really their biological sex . Gender identity depends on external agreement with a false identity . Being gay depends on whether someone has homosexual thoughtsactions , and a person exclusively attracted to the same sex is still gay even if they swear up and down that they ' re straight . The parallel to misgendering is hate speech would be Well , Joe says he ' s gay , but he also said he ' s enjoyed sex with women , so really he ' s bi . I know the QT set would love for people to not be able to say that , but we gay people are quite fine recognizing that there is an objective definition of homosexuality and that there are behaviors and feelings that are incompatible with it . That ' s because identity used to mean what somethingsomeone IS , not merely what they think they are . Considering that the totality of who a person is includes their subjective perception of self , subjective identity is a component of a person ' s overall identity , but that does not equate to that person ' s subjective sense of self being an accurate assessment of the sum total of their being . Being compelled to believe that it is , is tantamount to coercing people to agree with people ' s selfperceptions regarding any aspect of identity . Transracialism and Transableism get brought up , but even more fundamentally , if someone identifies as a smart and kind person , does that make them so just because they truly believe it ? If Donald Trump believes himself to be a visionary pioneer of American freedom , is it denying his existence to reject his claim ?