(July 11, 2023 at 3:31 am)Belacqua Wrote:(July 10, 2023 at 9:14 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: Richard Dawkins, the well known Militant Atheist, has said there are only 2 sexes or genders
Dawkins thinks we should only accept evidence that is empirically demonstrable. So we should demand repeatable, observable, objective evidence for what we think is true.
If someone says "I feel it is so." Dawkins thinks that is insufficient to persuade us of anything. Even if they feel it really really strongly -- because even strong feelings about what's true may be wrong.
Our current ideology concerning gender disagrees with Dawkins. What a person feels concerning their own gender is what is true, and there is no biological, empirical, repeatable, observable, objective evidence which can contradict this.
What's interesting to me is the question of when feelings are sufficient to prove something, and when they aren't.
You might want to take a closer look at the evidence. Aside from the easy measurements like suicide rates, there's some pretty compelling results from neuro-anatomy and hormone levels.
