X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=blobdiff_plain;f=notes%2Fa-hill-twitter-reply.md;h=60cb875a7b0b3089f25652661268dde3be438931;hb=HEAD;hp=088f07c0dd0f18647ef0834701e10e2d3181e31a;hpb=a0c980c871e502ed329305af3d38e2434eeff71a;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git diff --git a/notes/a-hill-twitter-reply.md b/notes/a-hill-twitter-reply.md index 088f07c..60cb875 100644 --- a/notes/a-hill-twitter-reply.md +++ b/notes/a-hill-twitter-reply.md @@ -1,10 +1,5 @@ 28 November 2018 - - - - - [TODO: "not ontologically confused" concession] It's true that I was _originally_ thinking about all this in the context of autogynephilia and Blanchard's proposed two-type taxonomy. But the philosophical issues at hand here are _way_ more general than that specific hypothesis, and I think Yudkowsky _already_ had more than enough evidence—if [used efficiently](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/MwQRucYo6BZZwjKE7/einstein-s-arrogance)—to see that the distribution of actual trans people we know is such that the categories-are-not-abritrary point is relevant in practice. @@ -12,7 +7,3 @@ It's true that I was _originally_ thinking about all this in the context of auto Consider again the 6.7:1 (!!) cis-woman-to-trans-woman ratio among 2018 _Slate Star Codex_ survey respondents (which I cited in ["... To Make Predictions"](/2018/Feb/the-categories-were-made-for-man-to-make-predictions/)). A curious rationalist, having been raised to believe that trans women are women (or at least, that people who insist that trans women _aren't_ women are ontologically confused), and considering observations like this, might ask the question: "Gee, I wonder _why_ women who happen to be trans are _so much_ more likely to read _Slate Star Codex_, and be attracted to women, and, um, have penises, than women who happen to be cis?" If you're _very careful_, I'm sure it's possible to give a truthful answer to that question without misgendering anyone. But if you want to give a _concise_ answer—perhaps not a _maximally rigorous_ answer, but an answer that usefully [points](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YF9HB6cWCJrDK5pBM/words-as-mental-paintbrush-handles) to the true causal-structure-in-the-world while still fitting in a Tweet—I think you _need_ to be able to say something like, "Because trans women are men." (At least as a _live hypothesis_, even if you prefer an intersex-brain etiology for the people we know.) - - - -