Why does reincarnation matter? If I was a woman in a past like, that doesn't change my current identity in this life as a man.
It's possible to contribute to an ethnicity's culture without being a member of that ethnicity. If a white person talks or acts Black, that doesn't make him Black. But obviously I do associate Black cultural expression with Black people. But expressing content contributory to an ethnic culture differs from identifying as a member of the relevant ethnicity. I, a feminine man, contribute to feminine culture, but that doesn't make me a woman. A person is a woman because they performs behaviors that the relevant gender norms count as definitive of women.
I mean...yes, yes I do. Your racial identity, again, depends on your parents' racial identities, not some private feeling. Also Sylvia Browne is a literal psychic. You tell me I don't support science, but at least I don't support anti-scientific nonsense like psychics!
Ok, then give examples of non-human societies and cultures.
I don't see why I should have to do biology in order to study sociology! Evolutionary psychology ignores the unique features specific to humans. Every species of animal is unique. IDK how a non-human animal could have a culture.
I don't need to compare my internal impressions with anything else. Why would I? It's MY gender.
This seems dangerously close to reparative therapy. It wouldn't benefit a patient for a psychologist to tell them they don't know their own gender. After all, reparative therapists literally do tell patients they don't know their own sexual orientation. It would help if we had some experiemental evidence to support the claim that someone's unconscious gender differs from their conscious identity, but we don't and I predict we never will, because the feeling of being a gender is not measurable in a experimental setting. How could it be? The closest example I can think of that resembles your claim that gender can be unconscious is closet queers. Society does force people to hide their queer identities and someone might even trick themselves into believing they're straight just because that's the social expectation. But it's impossible to know that a straight person really wants to be queer inside unless the person explicity tells us they have queer desires. So the patient has the authority to pick their identity, not the therapist. If a male-bodied person identifies as a woman, and never says or does anything to suggest they consider themselves a man, then we have to believe they are a woman. Futhermore, let's assume a man does admit he wants to be a woman sometimes. Desire still differs from identification. Until that man identifies as a woman, we must accept him as a man. The fact that someone might occasionlly want to be a member of a gender different from their own only further supports my view that gender is non-essential and always potentially changeable. A man can identify as a man his whole life, while repeatedly wanting to be a woman, non-binary person, or even agendered person, AND HE WILL STILL REMAIN A MAN BECAUSE HE IDENTIFIES AS A MAN.
