Gender

[Mister Agenda]

Personally I subscribe to a self-id model of gender.

I think it's fascinating that the rule of empirical objectivity has exceptions. Obviously, if someone here said, "I am sure that God is all around me because it is self-evident to my experience as a human," none of the regular posters here would take that as the least bit persuasive as evidence. But "I am sure I am not the same gender I was assigned at birth because it is self-evident to my experience as a human" is something we now accept without question. 

We wouldn't take it as persuasive, but I don't think many of us would argue that it's not their experience. We're not going to try to force someone to pretend there's no God because we're so sure there isn't. Not trying to force a different reality than the one they perceive on someone is just following the don't be a dick commandment. That's without getting into nuances of intersex, hormones, and possibly actual brain structure.

I don't have to personally believe a person's self description is precisely correct in order to honor it. You might notice most of the atheists here support freedom of religion, for instance.