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Originally Posted by fixed_truth
It's an internal perception not dependent on anything to do with your physical body.
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Thus for the perception, and the identity, to exist, it has to be subjectively experienced. So a transgender male who identifies as a woman reverts to being a man upon death. In fact, reverts to being a man whenever the consciousness that creates the alternate, subjective, reality is not present. The transgender male who identifies as a woman while awake is a man while asleep - because there's no consciousness there to actively participate in the alternate self-constructed reality.
This inevitably becomes a dualist discussion of a self that exists independent of the corporeal body. That is to say, a soul. Which just reinforces the obviousness of the fact that we are talking about religious belief.