> The definition of "identity" in this context was good enough for the owner of the Madrilenian book store owner. It was, because that's all the information th

> The definition of "identity" in this context was good enough for the owner of the Madrilenian book store owner. It was, because that's all the information they had at the time—that the author of the book represented themselves via a picture of a woman. Most people who do that, are women. And then they got new information: in fact, the book was written by three men, and the woman does not exist. So they updated their priors. That's what people do when encountering someone (or someones) being misleading. It's not a complicated situation at all—we don't need to bring transgenderism into this to understand it. You tell me it's raining, and I'll grab an umbrella. I go outside, find out the skies are clear, and I'll put the umbrella away. Maybe it was raining previously, and it stopped. Maybe you lied. I don't entertain the possibility that it is raining for you but not for me.