Sure. If someone believes they have red hair when they have blonde hair, and they're very upset if you say they have blonde hair, then I'm happy to not bring it up or mention it. But my perception of them as having blonde hair is mine, and describing them as redhead feels weird.
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Like it's being untruthful to my experience of them in order to make them feel better. And like, I'm ok with that! I'm okay with lying to them about how I experience them if they actively want me to pretend. I'm not gonna judge them for it mattering a lot.
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Right, and I think this is getting closer to the heart of how my gender framework differs. For me, gender is much closer to a discrete category than anything else; I process the definition of gender as internally decided as inconsistent and nonsensical, like what does it mean?
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when e.g. an afab nonbinary person tells me they're not a woman, im like... what does that even mean? You look like a woman, obviously. You act like one, people treat you like one. What does it mean to not 'feel like' one? How could you 'feel like' anything?
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I'm down with there being gaps in feelings but this one seems much closer to being some sort of collective mythology; people claim to have this sort of gendersense but then are completely incapable of describing it? Seems really weird to me.
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This is really frustrating to me. I'm not saying you're being dishonest or anything, just that "i can't describe it" is where these conversations end up and then I'm stuck again. I wish someone could answer me on this.
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...no? It seems like the most natural thing to me.