>I could choose to indulge my fabulous side and cross dress
Well, personally, I would say you are born with a fabulous side so you are just being true to yourself. Congrats and have fun!
> Yes, choices do have consequences, but social exclusion based on those choices can still be critiqued.
The problem is you are making a choice not only to believe in something completely void of fact (you can be ignorant if you want to be I guess) but you are also making a choice that HARMS society as a whole. When a person's choice guides them to discriminate a whole group of people based on some stories written a few thousands of years ago thats a choice that deserves to be critiqued. If your choice guides the people you vote for to be anti-science yeah, that choice deserves to be ridiculed.