[MD] Virtually meaningful?

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Marsha]
But besides, SA is NOT this or that.  She/He is an an ever-changing, 
collection of overlapping, interrelated, inorganic, biological, 
social and intellectual, static patterns of value.... From 
nano-second to the next nano-second there is absolutely no 
consistency.  Any consistency is illusion.

[Arlo asked]
Would you still feel as if Heather lied?

[Marsha]
Yes.

[Arlo]
Makes no sense to me, Marsha.

If "SA" is an ever-changing, collection of overlapping, 
interrelated... patterns of value" with only the illusion of 
consistency, then why would this be a lie? Why, if Heather really and 
fully believes herself to be a female, would you're learning she has 
male parts change your relationship with her? Again, what if she had 
those parts removed years ago? Is she a woman then?

I'd gather you think of "Julia" as a lie and of "Mark" as the "real 
person" despite her absolute self-identity as a female named Julia? 
You may want to dismiss these questions, Marsha, and I can see why, 
but they are really pointers to what you feel the "self" is, and what 
correlates with you between "body" and "self".

I accept you as a woman, Marsha, and if I later learned that your 
body was that of a male, I'd continue to accept Marsha as a woman. I 
guess that's where we are different.

With Mark/Julia, I think it demonstrates how physical form has little 
to no correlation with self-identity, and that the "selves" of others 
we interact with can have value and meaning and reality apart from 
the encumbrances of a physiological form.

And really, there is nothing more I can say. Let's just end this, okay?