Yes, we can be certain about age, and the other immutable empirical characteristics you list. But, as I tried to explain in my last reply, there are certain features of the mind that are poorly understood as to their genesis and manifestation. I’m an assigned at birth male, if I say I feel as strongly as anyone can feel that I’m a female in the very essence of my subject feelings, you can rightly point out that I have the genotype , XY, and the typical male phenotype. And I would agree with you. But, that doesn’t negate my perception that my brain’s expressive manifestation is aligned with the belief and socially accepted behavioral repertoire of a female sense of being.
Why do you think people have a difficult time answering the question, what is a woman or a man? It’s a nebulous bio-socio construct that we take for granted but difficult to explain. Whether it’s just a form of mental pathology or a biological miswiring of the brain has yet to be determined. As how these individuals should be incorporated into society is another matter.
Yes, we can be certain about age, and the other immutable empirical characteristics you list. But, as I tried to explain in my last reply, there are certain features of the mind that are poorly understood as to their genesis and manifestation. I’m an assigned at birth male, if I say I feel as strongly as anyone can feel that I’m a female in the very essence of my subject feelings, you can rightly point out that I have the genotype , XY, and the typical male phenotype. And I would agree with you. But, that doesn’t negate my perception that my brain’s expressive manifestation is aligned with the belief and socially accepted behavioral repertoire of a female sense of being.
Why do you think people have a difficult time answering the question, what is a woman or a man? It’s a nebulous bio-socio construct that we take for granted but difficult to explain. Whether it’s just a form of mental pathology or a biological miswiring of the brain has yet to be determined. As how these individuals should be incorporated into society is another matter.