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I think that's his point, that an institution is discriminating in such a way as allows the people ostensibly being excluded to use the discrimination to rebel

• jollybean 5y ago
  I'm not worried about someone 'punishing the system'. My point is that there's an obvious legal and moral conundrum with identities that are entirely self applied, which is made evident by someone making a claim to said identities and being rejected of those claims. Try it: Identify as Two Spirit, get rejected, sue on the basis of discrimination that UBC would not recognize your (completely arbitrary) claims to Two Spirit. Then force them to make the argument, in court. It'd be impossible other than to demonstrate the absurdity of the reasoning: "I define myself as this kind of gender, which is my right, therefore I deserve this privilege" "But that person over there cannot define themselves as this kind of gender, because their ancestors are from a different continent" It's Monty Python all the way down the rabbit hole.