I do not have a gender identity. (I am female. That is my sex. That makes me a woman). How is my lack of gender identity observable?
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This theory leads to some strange conclusions. If the only thing that makes someone a woman is their gender identity, but gender identity is not observable in female women there is *nothing* you can learn about the nature of womanhood from studying female people....
So the biological reality which you say defines womanhood (i.e. gender identity), can *only* be studied in those populations where it is observable i.e. transwomen
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Alternatively (and occam's razor suggests this pathway). You might conclude from the fact that there is a population of men with strong feelings of wanting to be viewed as women, that this is a real phenomena deserving of study & compassion
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...but that drawing any conclusions about the biological reality of the large group "female people" from studying a much smaller group which does not overlap with it "male people who want to be treated as if they were female people" is unjustified
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