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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 08 January 2014 03:33:23AM 11 points [-]

I wonder why I thought that the author of the blog post is female...

Because it's a valid Bayesian inference based on the content of the post.

Comment author: ChristianKl 08 January 2014 01:55:54PM 5 points [-]

Given the issue of being misgendered, the person seems to be a transperson who either was female in the past and is now male or who was male and is now female. To you think post indicates which of those are the case?

I think the post makes clear that the person is no cis-male, but it's difficult to say things that are more specific.

Comment author: MugaSofer 18 January 2014 11:23:34AM *  -1 points [-]

It's really not. They refer to being misgendered, which should have been strong evidence your assumption was mistaken. And indeed, if you had clicked through to their "about" page you would have found they prefer to be referred to with male pronouns.

I don't really care - I'm fairly certain this is the work of a troll - but hey, you claimed it was an example of valid Bayesian inference, so naturally I'm going to leap on it.