@socksknitter @vjc_torianist There's a handy word for 'demanding that others see you as you want to be seen': politics. And a politics that appeals to legality, preference, and evolution (unholy trinity, that) before it even considers the dignity of another human being to be seen as themselves, is garbage.
Bewick-style engraving from Robert Bloomfield's "May Day with the Muses" (1822), a collection of narrative-poems delivered by tenants who "pay their rents in rhyme"