Evan Urquhart

@transphilosophr Absolutely true. The transgender phenomenon may or may not have a pre-natal underpinning. The question is open.

@transphilosophr So, as a philosopher, you prefer what I think of as "the identity tautology"?

@v_urq What do you mean by the "identity tautology"?

@transphilosophr I am a man because I say I am a man. There is no objective reality, only language which we redefine at will.

@v_urq No - I think the phenomenon of gender identity is much more complicated than "I verbalized it therefore it's true"

@transphilosophr I'm glad. This "identity" concept seems so slippery to me. Can someone lie about their identity? Can they be mistaken?

@v_urq If you casually asked a random person, "What is your gender?" there is a very small chance they'd be lying - take it at face value

@transphilosophr Certainly, as a practical matter. But as a philosophical one- is gender id something one can lie or be mistaken about?