-"Hold on, I'm not sure we should be disrespecting that effort by calling them _rubes_," you say. You read _Slate Star Codex_ and are a very intelligent and humane person. "Categories were made for the man, not man for the categories. There's no rule of sorting saying that we should call them rubes, and there are plenty of rules of human decency saying that we should call them bleggs. And at a glance, they _look_ like bleggs—I mean, like the more-typical bleggs."
+_As it happens_, (I claim) the evidence that gender dysphoria is more than one thing is quite stong. For reasons of personal interest, I'm going to focus on the male-to-female case for the rest of this post. An analysis of the female-to-male situation would be similar in many respects but different in others, and is left to the interested reader.
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+[explain the taxonomy, point out that it's possible to believe in a weaker version of it; link to Lawrence, &c.]
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+In less tolerant places and decades, where MtF transsexuals were very rare and had to try very hard to pass as women out of dire necessity, their impact on the social order and how people think about gender was minimal—there were just too few trans people to make much of a difference. (This is why experienced crossdressers report it being easier to pass in rural areas rather than