+* the reason it _matters_ that people already have a concept for male because of the high-dimensionality, which my diagram can't express, but intution can
+* passing is _hard_
+* the mismatch gets _worse_ with less gatekeeping
+* "gay" trans women are etiologically straight
+* 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"
+* address "This never happens"
+* better phrasing: Most of the time when we say "X is an instance of Y", we're appealing to some sort of truth condition: something that can be observed to distinguish things that are Y from things that are not-Y. If the only such criterion is "X _says_ they're a Y", that at that point I struggle to understand what Y is or why anyone (including X themself) should care.
+* 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
+* section about how this a question of what social norms we want to negotiate
+* better phrasing: Is this too absolutist?—effectively equating "trans" with "passing", and even then marked as an [atypical case](http://lesswrong.com/lw/nk/typicality_and_asymmetrical_similarity/)? Would it really be so costly to grant an occasional isolated unprincipled exception to our usual category boundaries, for kindness's sake? Perhaps not—if we could trust that the exception to our normal ways of thinking and speaking would _stay_ isolated. But the goals of the modern transgender movement seem to be somewhat broader in scope.
+* better phrasing: Unfortunately, helping people get the things that they want is a hard problem, because people are complicated and the world is complicated. That's why, when renegotiating social norms to apply to a historically unprecedented situation, [...]
+* As a rationalist, I want to protect people's freedom to describe the world as it
+* This is a question about what sort of social norms we want to establish, and different choices of social norms have different costs and benefits! In a world where trans isn't a thing, the standard is, "Pass as a natal woman, or be regarded as a man pretending to be a woman." This isn't good for autogynephilic transsexuals! Later, the standard became, "If if looks like you're sincerely trying to pass as a natal woman, we'll model you that way, even if you don't quite pass." This is a better deal for autogynephilic transsexuals!
+* (Even if you're [not a fan of gender roles](/2017/Dec/theres-a-land-that-i-see-or-the-spirit-of-intervention/) and wish that people were less eager to distinguish humans by sex when it's not absolutely necessary, to the extent that not everyone shares this value or wants to apply it in _all_ areas of life, it matters how the categories are defined.)
+* I'm glad [I was able to experiment with hormones](http://unremediatedgender.space/tag/hrt-diary/) on the basis of informed consent, rather than being gatekept.