If I understand it correctly, you are willing to use the preferred pronouns for passing trans people, because your System 1 doesn’t object. May I interpret it as: “as long as we are not mentioning biology explicitly, I am okay to use the words ‘man/woman’ in the sense ‘what my System 1 perceives as a man/woman’, because that is a natural boundary”? (Like, biology is one natural boundary, System 1 judgment in another natural boundary, neither is inherently better than the other, the proper choice depends on context.)
This makes me imagine an opposite example: a non-passing cis person. Like, a fat man with man-boobs, with long hair, cleanly shaven, having somewhat feminine skull shape… who insists on being called “he”. Or a bald muscular woman, with some facial hair, wearing male clothes… who insists on being called “she”. I assume you would agree that it is proper to use their preferred pronouns (and would be quite offensive not to), because they match the biology (even in situations where biology is not explicitly mentioned), and to ignore the confused feelings of System 1. Am I right?
If I understand it correctly, you are willing to use the preferred pronouns for passing trans people, because your System 1 doesn’t object. May I interpret it as: “as long as we are not mentioning biology explicitly, I am okay to use the words ‘man/woman’ in the sense ‘what my System 1 perceives as a man/woman’, because that is a natural boundary”? (Like, biology is one natural boundary, System 1 judgment in another natural boundary, neither is inherently better than the other, the proper choice depends on context.)
This makes me imagine an opposite example: a non-passing cis person. Like, a fat man with man-boobs, with long hair, cleanly shaven, having somewhat feminine skull shape… who insists on being called “he”. Or a bald muscular woman, with some facial hair, wearing male clothes… who insists on being called “she”. I assume you would agree that it is proper to use their preferred pronouns (and would be quite offensive not to), because they match the biology (even in situations where biology is not explicitly mentioned), and to ignore the confused feelings of System 1. Am I right?