Isn't this exactly an example of you assuming you know better? How have you verified your own position, your own beliefs about transgenderism and gender dysphoria? Is your position actually coherent and defensible? Putting aside how gender theory conflicts with common sense, there are plenty of philosophers and scientists who, as philosophers and scientists, find gender theory incoherent. Not just wrong, but incoherent. You wouldn't know that by listening to the journalistic fluff and ideologues, but these gatekeepers of "reality" are precisely those whom we need to be wary of. Have you tried to examine the best arguments against gender theory?
> What I fear is that loss of certainty is something that keeps some people into the naïve realist position or so I've noticed in my own social circles.
> It's like talking to a brick wall. And honestly, I've given up. It's just one tiny example in a sea of ignorance
Are you certain about these claims? You seem to be fairly confident. While your interlocutors may not have the sophistication to have reasons for their positions (I don't know), that doesn't mean there aren't valid arguments against your convictions, and yet you seem quite certain that there aren't, whereas I claim that there are.
I think what needs to be underscored is that, in the typical course of affairs, we make best judgements based on our prior beliefs and revise them when we have sufficient reason to revise them. You may not have come across such reasons (again, I don't know), but if you did, would you consider revising your position? Do you have good arguments for your position?
>Isn't this exactly an example of you assuming you know better?
Nope since it's about me how I see myself with respect to my gender identity.
>Putting aside how gender theory conflicts with common sense, there are plenty of philosophers and scientists who, as philosophers and scientists, find gender theory incoherent.
I don't care what theories are out there, my identity is what I subjectively experience, if your assertion is that I should take what others think what I'm actually experiencing as the single source of truth and be subordinate to their thoughts and feelings then I'm just gonna say no. My brain, my body, my experiences, my way or the highway. People who disagree lose nothing by leaving me and others like me alone.
>Have you tried to examine the best arguments against gender theory?
Again, I don't need affirmation for what I subjectively experience. I don't experience gender the way you and others do. Therefore, I act on my own will to express and identify as I wish. If this offends you and your own ask yourself why. Why is it so important that you have the power over my person and my property when, as I stated before, you lose nothing by letting me be.
>Are you certain about these claims?
Again when it comes to my subjective experience regarding my gender identity, yes. I can confirm my feelings because I am my feelings. There's no argument you can produce to say I am not myself or the body of my experiences that isn't some strange brew of Cartesian nonsense that's been long discarded.
>I think what needs to be underscored is that, in the typical course of affairs, we make best judgements based on our prior beliefs and revise them when we have sufficient reason to revise them. You may not have come across such reasons (again, I don't know), but if you did, would you consider revising your position? Do you have good arguments for your position?
No because when we're discussing my subjective experience (this seems to be a theme here) it's not a question of external verification because you can't externally verify what's subjective or internal to your mental states. Therefore, I have supreme confidence that my gender dysphoria is not some random fluke that'll go away if I listen to the right argument from someone, just as my subjective experience with clinical depression (life long) will magically evaporate if people repeatedly tell me it's just a phase despite historical trends.
Ultimately, your argument boils down to this: you subjectively experience A, you should listen to others with respect to that experience and disregard it despite it not being something you're attempting to objectify nor assume to be an excuse to act against their own wishes and subjective experiences of their own person. You might want to recheck your assumptions. First, acknowledge that the mental states of others is wholly subjective and therefore not up for debate as to their existence. Second, if those subjective experiences do not result in actions that impede the actions of others then it's automatically permissible no matter how much you might feel it's disgusting/vulgar/tasteless/etc as personal sentiments should not be the basis for interpersonal interactions inasmuch as asserting some kind of morality or ethics. Third, asking someone to disregard to their own subjective experience as if it's up for debate is something that shouldn't be the default position as for the reasons stated prior.
Basically, you're coming off as an arrogant jerk trying to say, "well you need to consider other people's feelings about your feelings" which doesn't make any sense on its face or even in-depth and it's the reason why I don't believe in capital T truth.
> What I fear is that loss of certainty is something that keeps some people into the naïve realist position or so I've noticed in my own social circles.
> It's like talking to a brick wall. And honestly, I've given up. It's just one tiny example in a sea of ignorance
Are you certain about these claims? You seem to be fairly confident. While your interlocutors may not have the sophistication to have reasons for their positions (I don't know), that doesn't mean there aren't valid arguments against your convictions, and yet you seem quite certain that there aren't, whereas I claim that there are.
I think what needs to be underscored is that, in the typical course of affairs, we make best judgements based on our prior beliefs and revise them when we have sufficient reason to revise them. You may not have come across such reasons (again, I don't know), but if you did, would you consider revising your position? Do you have good arguments for your position?