When not using your first language and you forget the word for a common item so you revert back to your first language. At least that's what I'm getting from this.

It all boils down to perspective bias. The liar thinks everyone else lies. The thief thinks everyone steals. A pacifist thinks everyone "generally" is also a pacifist. The problem is perspective bias is sometimes right. Generally it's wrong, but sometimes, sometimes it's right. This leads to things like the exception that proves the rule. Then there's the problem with Twitter and others feeding that initial bias with other people who share the same or similar perspective bias. This leads to confirmation bias which is as pervasive as it is hindering. Here's the rabbit hole if you'd like to read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

That's because he was a smart man. True, he was also a horrible, dirty scoundrel that loved money and power and would use unscrupulous means to get either one, but he was a smart man.

I leave this here since it seems relevant: “Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.” -John Stuart Mill.

Yes, but I don't have the equipment. Then there's that cost and so on. I don't go shooting enough to make it worth the investment.

Of course that's the worst and the best part about truth. We do all have our rose tinted glasses but trying to find the truth regardless of that handicap is a noble pursuit. The hardest part in my opinion is not swapping one shade of glasses for another. It's always best to go smaller rather than larger when attempting to find the truth. Physicist have it way easier in that regard because there is an absolute limit and the smaller we go the better we can understand reality. Sociologists on the other hand are constantly hampered by "culture" and the fact that while you can go down in scope the big picture can be just as important. As for your example, right now biological sex isn't in question. Your chromosomes dictate that and anything else is merely cosmetic or ideological. We may get to the point were we can change that but for now it's just not possible. But that is biological it's rather cut and dry. Sociological it's a mess and I try to avoid the sociological whenever possible.

I know you're just commenting and don't hopefully mean that literally but I'm still obliged to say, the truth is a fact and completely independent of people or their perception/wants of the truth. Truth is by definition objective and not subjective. Which is what this ^ is getting at; along with it gets easier to deny facts the longer you deny them. Nothing removes all respectability from a person faster than saying "my truth". This is both dishonest and idiotic. Dishonest because what they really mean, and they know it, is it's their opinion. Idiotic because we all know it's not the truth and when someone starts by saying "well my truth" the next words out of their mouth should be completely disregarded as nothing more than fiction or an outright lie.