Gender

[Bucky Ball]

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. 

I doubt you really find that "fascinating". 
Claims about these examples and "empirical objectivity" are incorrect.  
The problem is also the Fallacy of the False Analogy. 
One is a claim about an EXTERNAL being for which there is no evidence, (a subjective view), a condition the believer never sought help to be cured of,
the other is also possibly a subjective view, that the person speaking, who has been through many years of counselling and OBJECTIVE BEHAVIORS consistent with their condition, diagnosed by experts in the field, who took a risk. There also IS objective evidence that the brains of some transgenders are different.

"The available research indicates that the brain structure of androphilic trans women with early-onset gender dysphoria is closer to that of cisgender women than that of cisgender men.[2] It also reports that gynephilic trans women differ from both cisgender female and male controls in non-dimorphic brain areas. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_...in%20areas.

Belief in the gods entails no risks. There is not even a faint similarity here. The "regret" rate for those who sought sexual reassignment surgery is very low.

People come and go to one faith and another, drop if for years, convert late in life and pay nothing to the Religion doctors (except to Psychiatrists who they get help from from all the abuse they suffer from religion).

Are you sure you really want to be comparing religious faith with someone who in your implication, is lying to himself/herself, his/her physicians, lying to his/her family disrupting their lives for years ?