(November 21, 2024 at 7:36 am)Sheldon Wrote:(November 21, 2024 at 7:30 am)Paleophyte Wrote: According to The APA Dictionary of Psychology:Well he claimed that we only have the subjective claim of the patient, which isn't true of course.
"the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for different genders. In a human context, the distinction between gender and sex reflects the usage of these terms: Sex refers to the biological status of being male, female, or intersex, whereas gender implies the psychological, behavioral, social, and cultural aspects of gender (i.e., masculinity, femininity, nonbinary, nonconforming, or other gender)."
So you'd want to look at the person's behavior, much like everything else that a psychiatrist or psychologist is likely to do. Or are you suggesting that a psychological diagnosis isn't objective?
See my question above.
If a person behaves "like a man" but reports that they are a woman, what do we conclude?