Transgender women (people born biologically male who now consider themselves women) are men, and should not be called women. That’s because they are of the male sex, and adult male humans are men. Similarly, transgender men (people born female who now consider themselves men) are actually women because they are adult human females.
It’s extraordinary that such innocuous observations are branded variously as intolerant, hateful, bigoted, or ignorant when they are none of these things. Things get even worse when people respond by alleging that I am denying the very “right to exist” to trans men and women, or that I am trying to deny them human rights. On the contrary, all I am doing is telling you what I think men and women are. If I denied them the right to exist, I would be calling for their extermination, which is a horrible thing to attribute to me. It is a mere rhetorical trick to make it sound like I want to harm people. I don’t believe there is a human right for a man to be regarded by everyone else as a woman, any more than I believe a white woman has the right to be regarded by everyone else as a black woman.