The hive mind at Wikipedia has made its decision: “As a result of winning the Olympic decathlon, Jenner was a national hero. She was the 1976 recipient of the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States. Jenner was also the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year in 1976.”

For those who may not be familiar with the Bruce Jenner saga (are there any such persons left?), how “she” won the “Male Athlete of the Year” award raises questions…

But GLAAD also defines “gender identity,” which is the thing at issue here, as “one’s own internal, deeply held sense of being male or female.” That presents a problem.

As a practical matter, discrete individuals have little stake in Jenner’s “internal, deeply held sense” of being male or female or a parakeet. One can maintain that he is not a woman, just as one can maintain that none of the patients at Ypsilanti were actually the Christ, and a reasonable, well-adjusted society would be able to treat Jenner kindly and respectfully without also demanding that everyone in said society assent to Jenner’s own self-interpretation.