Assume that someone has, say, blood type B, in other words, he has a particular set of red blood cell surface proteins. However, he vehemently maintains that he has blood type A. He really, really feels deep inside that he has blood type A. That blood type defines him and is an inherent part of him. In fact, he gets offended if someone claims that he's actually blood type B instead of A. Whenever he has to go to the doctor and the subject of blood type comes up, he begrudgingly admits that he "was born with blood type B", that he's "biologically blood type B", but nevertheless he strongly insists that he is now blood type A and his decision must be respected. He was "assigned blood type B" at birth, and that was a mistake.
Now, assume that society has gone completely crazy and huge organizations, corporations, schools, universities, news media and even scientists start supporting this notion. You have the blood type you say you have! It doesn't matter what machines say. You are not defined by whatever they say. If you say that you are blood type A then you are, period, and everybody must respect that. And if anybody claims otherwise that person should be punished, shunned and harassed to submission!
After all, say the scientists, the whole concept of "blood type" is nothing but a social construct. There's a whole spectrum of blood types! Some people may be born with one blood type, other people with another, and yet other people with a third type! Clearly the whole concept of "blood type" is fluid. Everybody can be whatever blood type they want, and it can even change from day to day, even minute to minute. You may well be blood type B today and blood type A tomorrow. If you want to be a mix between the two, blood type AB, go right ahead! You are that blood type, just by saying so. That's completely normal, and everybody has to respect that!
Science might have defined for decades blood types by the proteins on the surface of red blood cells, but that's completely antiquated thinking. Science is learning that it's not these proteins that determine your blood type. You yourself determine if your blood type is A, B, AB, or anything else. Heck, you can invent new blood types as you wish! The proteins don't define you. You define you! If you want to be blood type X, or blood type T, or blood type WTK5, that's up to you, and everybody must respect your decision!
Let's assume that society became so absolutely insane that everything above were to happen.
Does that mean that that person doesn't have blood type B, even though the proteins on the surface of his red blood cells say otherwise?
Of course not. Personal feelings and fantasy do not determine what proteins you have on your blood cells. You are not "assigned" any particular blood type at birth. Instead, your blood type is measured and observed. Your blood type is 100% independent of how you personally feel. Your feelings have no effect on it. Your feelings are not going to change your blood cell proteins. No amount of political bullying and indoctrination is going to change that fact.
So why would it be different when it comes to biological sex? It's the same thing.
If you are born with two X chromosomes you are a female, a woman, by definition. If you are born with XY chromosomes you are a male, a man, by definition. No amount of totalitarianism and harassment is going to change that fact. It doesn't matter if a microscopic amount of people have other chromosome combinations, that doesn't change the fact that by definition XX is female, XY is male. The other anomalies have no effect on that.
A man saying that he's a "woman" doesn't make it so. His personal feelings, no matter how strong, are not going to change those chromosomes. No amount of political bullying is going to change them. If he claims that he is a woman, then he is just deluded, ie. delusional. Feelings don't change his chromosomes any more than they change their red blood cell surface proteins. He may force other people at gunpoint to call him a "woman", but that doesn't make him one.
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