(June 19, 2025 at 5:54 pm)Ahriman Wrote:(June 19, 2025 at 5:12 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Why should I care if Jim decides he is now going to called Susan and dress as a woman, how does that affect me?
Why are people even talking about it.
Suppose you have two people in a room, and both of them declare "I am a woman." But one of them is lying.
What objective evidence could we discover in a test that would show which is lying?
We know that gender is NOT determined by chromosomes, anatomy, hormones, etc.
Here is a case where we believe only the subjective reporting of the individual. And I think this is fairly unusual, since normally we insist on objective evidence before we believe something.
(For the record, I am not saying that this thought experiment is a likely scenario, or that anyone is lying about their gender. I'm only pointing out that objective tests seem not to exist for something we believe quite strongly.)
