I know there's a saying about how intelligent people are good are rationalising things and so that's how they can fall for silly beliefs, cults or scams, but when it involves trans issues it's never internally consistent. It's like there is no proper thought behind it. I find it hard to understand how they've joined everything up. I feel like I must not be getting something. It irritates me more than it should.
You're an intelligent person in academia yet you write a whole post on an extremely rare DSD about a person who fathered children and thought they were male but they were actually a female (apparently at one point the doctors told this person he had now become a female - hmmm). OK fine, let's just overlook what becoming female actually means to someone who presumably still has male parts down there and well also presumably a lack of, well female ones. So the person can be said to be a female because of their chromosomes? But then in other cases you'll argue that chromosomes are irrelevant to what sex you are? It makes no sense right? And then in the final paragraph after talking about nothing but this specific DSD you'll say we should believe what trans people say they are because it's their body not yours - well if that was what you were writing about then why all this talk of a DSD and biology? In the case you outlined the person didn't say they were female the doctors examined them and found a rare condition. If you believe a male with no medical ambiguity over his sex is whatever sex he says he is why not just state that outright and argue for that?
Sorry if that was rambling but I saw such a thing on my social media and I just had to vent here 😅.