(November 20, 2024 at 5:41 am)Sheldon Wrote:(November 19, 2024 at 6:16 pm)Belacqua Wrote: There are still red lines,
For me that red line will always be cruel bigotry, even if it does incur the disdain of the self appointed intellectual conscience of the forum. Can you see Texas from that high horse?
I'm on the other side of the world from Texas.
We are ideologically in agreement, in that we think that trans women are women, and that there should be no discrimination against people based on sexual orientation or gender.
Some people are stricter than we are concerning their epistemology. They think that we should only believe in those things for which there is objective evidence, and that subjective testimony is not good enough to be persuasive. So they don't accept the subjective testimony of people who say that their gender is different from what (until recently) was taken to be objectively indicative of maleness or femaleness. Objective evidence would include things like chromosomes or anatomy, or other observable, empirical evidence. For our more accepting attitude, subjective testimony is sufficient.
