The craziest aspect of this is that we’re really not talking about one’s right to have one’s own “beliefs” here. To say that this poor woman “believes” that some dude pretending to be woman is a “he” sort of implies that maybe she’s right, maybe she’s wrong. And that’s inaccurate. The dude IS a man. He’s a he. She’s right about him. Period, end of story. This is about the right not to be forced to pretend something is true when it is factually, objectively false. A man in a dress and makeup isn’t a “she.”
Exactly as NAZI Germany operated. You want to know why the average Joe German was able to pretend there was no holocaust? Because before that the NAZI's had conditioned the people to say things that everybody knew wasn't true in Orwellian 1984 style. Once you condition the people to confirm as fact what's obviously incorrect, you control no only their speech but also their processing of facts.
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is…in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
-Theodore Dalrymple
They don’t really care if you actually believe the lies, as long as they can force you to say that you do and thereby deny your own beliefs, or objective facts. It demeans you and forces you to accede to their power when they can force you to speak “correctly”, especially if you actually believe or know differently.
Absolutely correct: the whole point here is that the Left seeks to force people to be complicit in their lies, a kind of humiliation designed to break resistance to their political agenda.