(June 2, 2024 at 11:51 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: Because if it isn't the brain that determines this, then we are left with what?
I don't know. This seems to me a problem.
If there is no identifiable anatomical structure, or interaction (say, a balance of hormones) that determines gender, then we have no objective, testable, empirical method of determining it.
I mean, personally, it's OK with me if people want to identify however they want. But a personal claim is not one that science can deal with.
Put in another way, we could think about falsifiability. (Remember that it's common to say that any scientific claim must be falsifiable, and if it's not falsifiable it's not science.)
If a person claims they are one gender or another, or none, how can this be falsified? If a person says "I'm female," is it EVER possible to say "no, you're not." If not, then we're dealing with some kind of truth which is not empirical, testable, scientific. We are to believe it based on an individual's claim -- not on evidence.
