If it is required for society to recognize transgender people as the sex they declare then would it not make sense to mandate that society recognize anyone who declares themselves to be of any race they choose?
If a person feels ethnically black are they being persecuted when other people tell them that they are white and to stay in their own lane? Are they being persecuted when the admission board at a college will not recognize them as such?
Changing sex requires more DNA arrangements then changing skin color does... I await all the men of science to weigh in on this.
I am always interested to see how people who are solely driven by logic , reason and science answer interesting logic twists.