(Today at 4:57 am)Belacqua Wrote:(Today at 4:52 am)Paleophyte Wrote: The same test that you'd apply if they were lying about anything else. Is the lie somehow special because it involves something that you hold strong ideological beliefs about? No, it isn't.
Right. So there is no test you can apply to determine a person's gender. We can only believe what they say about their gender or not.
It's easy enough to quantify the stresses produced by misgendering an individual. The only reason that there isn't a rigorous test is that the hypothetical cis-liar claiming to be trans isn't really a thing.