-Once, in the hateful and bigoted days of our ancestors, people noticed whether babies were female or male, acculturated them into different social roles (childbearing and war being more relevant to their cultural systems then those of today's [barren](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/where-have-all-the-children-gone/594133/), [pacified](TODO: linky authoritarian submission) elites), and had [short, simple words](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/soQX8yXLbKy7cFvy8/entropy-and-short-codes) for the resulting clusters in personspace: girls and boys, women and men.
-
-But the ancestors, in choosing the words to carve _their_ reality at the joints, didn't distinguish between the fact of sex, and social sex _roles_—from _within_ a given Society, there was no reason to make that distinction. For a brief, beautiful moment in the West, 2nd-wave feminism's push to make Society [more congenial to masculine-of-center women](TODO: Eric Wulff link??) provided a reason, giving us the sex/gender split. That incentive lasted about forty years: after its crowning victory in _Obergefell v. Hodges_, the [Blue](https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/) [Egregore's](https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/05/07/weaponized-sacredness/) LGBT activist machinery wasn't about to sit idle or quietly disband, and instead adapted itself to the obvious next growth channel of absorbing new neurotype-demographics into the "T": specifically, capturing a larger fraction of ~5% (?) of men with intense AGP (whose analogues in a previous generation would have been [furtive, closeted crossdressers](TODO: linky transvestivism paper)), and the 5–15% (??) of [girls](TODO: ROGD linky) on the losing end of female intrasexual competition (whose analogues in a previous generation would have been anorexic).
-
-
-to collapse the sex/gender distinction pried apart at such painstaking cost by their feminist cousins two generations earlier—in the other direction,
-
-
-This is the first, initial stage of [Hoffman and Taylor's account of the precession of simulacra (following Breulliard)](http://benjaminrosshoffman.com/excerpts-from-a-larger-discussion-about-simulacra/). Medical transsexualism of the 20th-century West is a mixture of simulacrum levels 1 (to the extent that hormones and surgery constitute a successful [sex change](http://lesswrong.com/lw/xe/changing_emotions/)) and 2 (to the extent that they don't, and transitioning consists of [lying](TODO: blatant lies) about one's sex).
+Once, in the hateful and bigoted days of our ancestors, people noticed whether babies were female or male, acculturated them into different social roles (childbearing and war being more relevant to their cultural systems then that of today's [barren](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/07/where-have-all-the-children-gone/594133/), [pacified](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/23876) elites), and had [short, simple words](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/soQX8yXLbKy7cFvy8/entropy-and-short-codes) for the resulting clusters in personspace: girls and boys, women and men.