Whether you agree with me or not, you know full well that trans people identify as trans for some reason. Whether that reason is valid to you is not my job to either debate or sway.
for me the issue is that it is a priori Impossible to evaluate another’s feelings. One can only evaluate the validity of assertions based on measurable reality, which will allow assertions to be falsified If untrue (invalid).
Also, I am able To assess the validity of a statement, to take for example, “I am a woman” for example based only on agreed upon Definitions. If woman means adult human female and female means of the sex capable of producing large gametes, then we do have the ability to determine the validity of the assertion.
If woman means “Someone that identifies as a woman”, then the assertion is now empirically unfalsifiable As it is circular in the logical sense: “I am someone that identifies as a woman”
woman could also be redefined as “someone who is legally female”. In this case we can falsify the assertion By reference to legal documents, though now This simply pushed the issue down the pipe as “female“ needs to be redefined Under law and means something different for humans than for other animals. This is something that can and does get dicey when doing comparative work eg model animal studies. Also all trans people are excluded from “validity” until they Legally change their gender marker/legal sex.
I believe that someone’s experience of “feeling like a woman” is literally unfathomable to another person, whether the speaker is trans or not, and therefore can be Neither valid or invalid in the logical sense.
I agree that their Subjective feelings exist Just as any other subjective experience and are important to them. Beyond that basic empathy I’m not sure where to go or how to even form an “opinion”.