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A few days ago, a friend of mine asked for one kilo of bananas at the greengrocer but received one kilo of figs. He pointed out the misunderstanding, but the greengrocer told him that there was no mistake because, for him, that was precisely one kilo of bananas, not figs. Paradoxical? Not really. Article one, letter d) of the Zan law supports the same absurdity: "Gender identity is assumed as the perceived and manifested identification of oneself about gender, even if not corresponding to sex, regardless of the conclusion of a transition process". It means that if you want to be a man or a woman or something else, the objective reality of biological sex doesn't matter. Self-perception is enough. If I feel like a woman today, I expect to be treated like a woman (and I can change my mind tomorrow). So the greengrocer is absolutely right.

This absolute subjectivism wants to become a right. It's contrary to logic and common sense but creates real problems too. In Italy, we had Fabrizio (Valentina) Petrillo, the first transgender athlete born male to compete in women's competitions. Needless to say, female athletes weren't thrilled to compete with a (former?) man. But that's nothing. In Mexico, 18 candidates declared themselves women to get around the constraints required by female quotas during the elections.

A report published by Pro Vita & Famiglia points at least 91 cases of violence, abuse and other violations of women's rights due to transgenderism. In some cases, people were censored and attacked for their opposition to the participation of trans males in women's sports competitions or the access of biological males into women's bathrooms and locker rooms.

We got to the point that the greengrocer has every right to call figs bananas. However, we can censor with sanctions, sometimes sharp, the opponents of his right to change objective reality. And the left, not only the Italian left, agrees with him. The good old Karl Marx is turning in his grave to see what happened to historical materialism. The groundwork of his political-philosophical system.

Traduzione di Carlo Ghirri