(November 21, 2024 at 7:37 am)Belacqua Wrote:I don't have enough objective information yet to form a sound belief about your hypothetical, but a qualified psychiatrist could test whether they are suffering from gender dysphoria or not, as was pointed out above. Again if you're interested in how psychiatry evaluate gender dysphoria, I can only suggest you go look into it.(November 21, 2024 at 7:36 am)Sheldon Wrote: Well he claimed that we only have the subjective claim of the patient, which isn't true of course.
See my question above.
If a person behaves "like a man" but reports that they are a woman, what do we conclude?
I certainly wouldn't liken them, or anyone else, to a "hideous murderous monster", even metaphorically. As the thread author did in a sweeping and generic way, and without demonstrating any objective evidence of course.