-REMAINING SEGMENTS TO FILL—
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-* explain taxonomy
-* the trouble with stickers
-* Norton story gaps
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-OUTLINE OF TAIL END—
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- * dysphoria could me more than one thing
- * in fact, it is more than one thing, per BBL
- * and you can believe this even if you think the AGP story is wrong, I'm
- depending on the weaker claim that the non-exclusively-androphilic
- cluster is not an intersex condition: they start out male-typical
- * passing is _hard_
- * incl. my quip about "men who love what we _wish_ women were, and want to
- become _that_"
- * explicitly address the "Puerto Rican women don't have exactly the same
- distribution as women as a whole, but they're still women" argument
- (distribution of MtTs isn't just different from women as a whole, it's
- actually part of the _male_ cluster, which people already have a concept
- for)
- * link "Blegg Mode" somewhere
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- * "Portland"-like places have lots of trans women, and this has consequences for actual women—
- * secret clothing swaps
- * bathrooms
- * sports, prisons, medicine
- * weird social taboos, stickers
- * no matter what policy decision you ultimately decide on, you need to be
- honest about the trade-offs, rather than appealing to the idiot sophistry
- of "Trans women are women, by definition"
- * notice that re race, we _do_ say "don't care about costs to bigots"
- * Emperor Norton
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-If you need a sticker to get people to gender you correctly, _your transition has failed_.
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-In a free Society, everyone should have the right to express themselves, to modify their body and social presentation however they see fit. But having done your best to present your true self, you can't—not even _shouldn't_, but _can't_—exert detailed control how other people percieve you.
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-All you can do is force them to lie.
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-This is not rationality. This is not even kindness.
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-"Who are you going to believe, my sticker, or your lying eyes? There's no rule of rationality saying that you shouldn't believe the sticker, and there are plenty of rules of human decency saying that you should."
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-As a transhumanist as and as an individualist, I want to protect people's freedom to modify their body and social presentation, which _implies_ the right to transition. For the same reasons, I want to protect freedom of association, which _implies_ the right to have sex-segregated spaces that are actually segregated by biological sex if there exists demand that kind of space.
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-People should get what they want. We should have social norms that help people get what they want. I don't _know_ what the optimal social norms around transitioning are.
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- * link Ozy on "We don't have a gender gap, we have an _assigned sex at birth_ gap"
- * call out the mendacity of "assigned at birth" language
- * more justified segregation examples: sports (link "Questions Such As ..."), prison
- * section about how this a question of what social norms we want to negotiate
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-the _idiot sophistry_ of "Women are people who identify as women, _by definition_, and definitions can't be wrong, except if you use another definition, you're hurting people!—look, even Scott Alexander says so!"
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