1 > Knowing his occupation and observing him briefly and superficially were sufficient, together, for me to guess confidently about aspects of Edwin's life that he never mentioned. I know what he was like as a boy. I know what kind of person he is sexually attracted to. I know what kinds of activities interest him and what kinds do not. I am least sure what he will look like five years from now.
3 > —J. Michael Bailey, _The Man Who Would Be Queen: the Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism_, Preface
5 (Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better ...)
6 > The study of psychology is a violation of my privacy.
8 > —[@InstanceOfClass](https://twitter.com/InstanceOfClass/status/296450595420778497)
10 (As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb)
13 > Be the good girl you always have to be
18 > —"Let It Go", _Frozen_
20 > I cannot believe my eyes
21 > How the world's filled with filth and lies
22 > But it's plain to see
26 > —"My Eyes", _Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog_
28 > And believe me I am still alive
29 > I'm doing science and I'm still alive
30 > I feel fantastic and I'm still alive
31 > While you're dying I'll be still alive
32 > And when you're dead I will be still alive
34 > —_Portal_ end credits song
37 > You sound so innocent
38 > All full of good intent
39 > You swear you know best
40 > But you expect me to
41 > Jump up on board with you
42 > And ride off into your delusional sunset
44 > —"King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles
46 > If you want to make your stupid dream real, you need to have a realistic picture of the world. If you want a society in which men and women have the same brain, or one in which feminism actually works, you would have to make it so, with advanced biological engineering. John Varley writes fiction: so did Joanna Russ.
48 > —[Greg Cochran](https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/internal-contradictions/)
50 (The View From Nowhere)
51 > "The Order of Silent Confessors exists in the hope that, so long as humanity is sane, it can make choices in accordance with its true desires. Thus there is our Order dedicated _only_ to that, and sworn not to interfere in politics. So you will spend more time discussing this scenario, my lords, my ladies, and only then generate solutions. And then ... you will decide."
53 > —[_Three Worlds Collide_](http://lesswrong.com/lw/y6/war_andor_peace_28/) by Eliezer Yudkowsky
55 (Collective Guilt, Collective Shame)
56 > "My taxon, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."
58 > —Carl Shurz (paraphrased)
60 (Blanchard's Dangerous Idea)
61 > If you could only know
64 > —[_Steven Universe_ extended theme](https://youtu.be/H23rpzOAIzQ?t=48s)
66 > And since your history of silence
67 > Won't do you any good
68 > Did you think it would?
69 > Let your words be anything but empty
70 > Why don't you tell them the truth?
72 > Say what you want to say
73 > And let the words fall out
75 > I want to see you be brave
77 > —"Brave" by Sara Bareilles
79 > Not what teacher said to do
80 > Making dreams come true
81 > Living tissue, warm flesh, weird science!
83 > —"Weird Science" by Oingo Boingo
85 > "My dear, let us hope it is not true; but, if it is true, let us hope it will not become generally known."
87 > —[probably apocryphal](http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/) reaction to Darwin's theory of natural selection
89 > "I will destroy you and steal your fiancé, booty booty booty booty rocking everywhere!"
91 > —[from](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2HCgzxMDA) _Friendship Is Witchcraft_, "Foaly Matripony"
93 (Reduce Gender Identities)
94 > And there's a fine, fine line
95 > Between what you wanted
97 > You've got to go after the things you want
98 > While you're still in your prime
100 > —"There's a Fine, Fine Line", _Avenue Q_
102 > Some mommies are ranchers, or poetry makers
103 > Or doctors or teachers, or cleaners or bakers
104 > Some mommies drive taxis, or sing on TV
105 > Yeah, mommies can be almost anything they want to be!
107 > Well, they can't be grandfathers
110 > —"Parents Are People", _Free to Be You and Me_
112 > "—but if one hundred thousand straights can turn up, to show their support for the gay community, why can't you?"
113 > I said wearily, "Because every time I hear the word _community_, I know I'm being manipulated. If there is such a thing as _the gay community_, I'm certainly not a part of it. As it ahppens, I don't want to spend my life watching _gay and lesbian_ television channels, using _gay and lesbian_ new systems ... or going to _gay and lesbian_ street parades. It's all so ... proprietary. You'd think there was a multinational corporation who had the franchise rights on homosexuality. ANd if you don't _market the product_ their way, you're some kind of second-class, inferior, bootleg, unauthorized queer."
115 > —"Cocoon" by Greg Egan
117 (on commissioning transfeminine as a separate gender role because AGPs aren't real women)
118 > Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
122 (critiquing Julia Serano on trans being natural)
123 > Because it's going to be the future soon
124 > And I won't always be this way
125 > When the things that make me weak and strange
126 > Get engineered away
128 > —"The Future Soon" by Jonathan Coulton
130 (how long can the lie endure?? what happens when it all falls down?)
131 > It's time to put an end to this deception
133 > When the whole thing is at an end
134 > And you learn that it's just pretend
135 > You'll cry "Deception"
137 > —"Deception", _Jem_
139 > The realization blasted through Harry like a vast dam breaking, releasing out all its water, bursting through his mind in an irresistible flood that swept everything away.
141 > There is only one reality that generates all of the observations.
143 > If different observations seem to point in incompatible directions, it means the true hypothesis is one you haven't thought of yet.
145 > —_Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality_ by Eliezer Yudkowsky