Criticize is different than what "target" implies. This is why I was asking.
I am offering how a person can make a show of something, and then the person can be targeted . . . or criticized . . . or both. I have made a show of things, and I got criticized, and I was targeted. This can go for anything. So, my point in the case of people wanting to be of a different gender is if they make a show of it, and make a point and project of making a show of it, they can find themselves being attacked or criticized or targeted or whatever . . . maybe much more than someone who just does it and does not make a point of advertising it.
In my case, I don't buy people claiming to change their gender; but I have mainly my own correction which I need.
My identity is not a lie, so don't worry about joining in a lie.
I think there is a lot more to our real identity, than only which sexual organs we were born with. So, I don't buy that sexual preference or gender is very much to do with real identity. But if people are somehow very into their preference and/or gender, then they can consider it to be their identity or their main identity. I understand that our real identity has to do with who spiritually has us. We are with Jesus in His Holy Spirit of God's own love (Romans 5:5, Romans 8:9); or we are with Satan in his
"spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience." (in Ephesians 2:2)
And about our identity in Jesus > among other things,
"there is neither male nor female", Paul says, in Galatians 3:28. So, if someone is very busy with their identity being connected with what organs they have on their body, this is being about physical things, and can be away from benefitting from all we can have as children of God . . . so more and better than our bodies' organs can get for us. But for certain people pleasure is a treasure, and sexual stuff can feel very nice; so ones can turn sexual parts and activities into an identity thing.
Nature makes people XY female and XX male, so the idea that it must be an imitation if you aren't XY male or XX female is wrong.
I am not sure what you mean. I mean that if a person is born with male parts, for one example, and then he seeks to be accepted as being a female, he is imitating what he is not. Because he is not a female. Plus, again, why so much emphasis on gender as being so big a deal for one's identity? ?
We can be with God Himself and identified to be in Jesus Christ's kingdom, instead of only into our own selves and what we can make ourselves . . . or try . . . or pretend to make ourselves.
And yes, "of course", ones find that we Jesus people are fantasizing and have made ourselves an "imaginary friend". So, I understand people say this about us. But God is better than I was imagining and planning . . . totally better and different. He is better than humans can imagine. How you handle this, I don't know > to experience One invisible of love and we can tell He is more than we now know and appreciate, yet we do find ourselves to be experiencing and enjoying Him
I "guess" it is like having a friend who is much more and better than we appreciate now, but we keep discovering more and better how such a good friend is. But God is not only a friend.
By imitate I mean acting and making oneself look like what someone is not. A man who makes himself seem like a woman is not a woman, just because he wants to be one. Ladies have what men can't have, in various ways, not only physical. Each person is unique; with God, you can not change yourself to be what God knows you are not. There are things, not only sexual, which women are specialized for, which men can't be and do. It is not an identity thing, but simply how God has designed each individual. But this does not work with human self-effort; only God is able to bring us to all He has made us for.
