+
+> And since your history of silence
+> Won't do you any good
+> Did you think it would?
+> Let your words be anything but empty
+> Why don't you tell them the truth?
+>
+> Say what you want to say
+> And let the words fall out
+> Honestly
+> I want to see you be brave
+>
+> —"Brave" by Sara Bareilles
+
+(on "weirdly androgynous man and occasional transvestite" being a better plan)
+> We're looking for a few good men, and you've come a long way, baby. But baby—don't cross that line. Don't ever cross that line.
+>
+> —_Hidden: A Gender_ by Kate Bornstein
+
+> "My dear, let us hope it is not true; but, if it is true, let us hope it will not become generally known."
+>
+> —[probably apocryphal](http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/) reaction to Darwin's theory of natural selection
+
+> "I will destroy you and steal your fiancé, booty booty booty booty rocking everywhere!"
+>
+> —[from](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2HCgzxMDA) _Friendship Is Witchcraft_, "Foaly Matripony"
+
+(Reduce Gender Identities)
+> And there's a fine, fine line
+> Between what you wanted
+> And what you got
+> You've got to go after the things you want
+> While you're still in your prime
+>
+> —"There's a Fine, Fine Line", _Avenue Q_
+
+> Some mommies are ranchers, or poetry makers
+> Or doctors or teachers, or cleaners or bakers
+> Some mommies drive taxis, or sing on TV
+> Yeah, mommies can be almost anything they want to be!
+>
+> Well, they can't be grandfathers
+> Or daddies
+>
+> —"Parents Are People", _Free to Be You and Me_
+
+> "—but if one hundred thousand straights can turn up, to show their support for the gay community, why can't you?"
+> 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."
+>
+> —"Cocoon" by Greg Egan
+
+(on commissioning transfeminine as a separate gender role because AGPs aren't real women)
+> Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
+>
+> —Stan Kelly-Bootle
+
+(critiquing Julia Serano on trans being natural)
+> Because it's going to be the future soon
+> And I won't always be this way
+> When the things that make me weak and strange
+> Get engineered away
+>
+> —"The Future Soon" by Jonathan Coulton
+
+(how long can the lie endure?? what happens when it all falls down?)
+> It's time to put an end to this deception
+> But I'm afraid
+> When the whole thing is at an end
+> And you learn that it's just pretend
+> You'll cry "Deception"
+>
+> —"Deception", _Jem_