My first session was Wednesday. The clinic—parlor, salon?—was in "Portland"'s historic gay district. I checked out a nearby bookstore beforehand. They had the _Hamilton_ soundtrack playing, and a table setup encouraging customers to write postcards to our Congresscritters to protest GOP villainy.
-Meatspace bookstores never fail to conjure up a healthy sense of greed and ambition in me. O books O knowledge! O vastness of human thought, O connectedness of the readership graph! O _searing pain of wretched humiliation_ that I've been so slow and lacking in my own contributions to the graph. (Lest we forget, _The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought_ is [more than a year old](/2016/Sep/apophenia/), and I've barely _begun_ the Sequence of things I've wanted to say for a long time.)
+Meatspace bookstores never fail to conjure up a healthy sense of greed and ambition in me. O books O knowledge! O vastness of human thought, O connectedness of the readership graph! O _searing pain of wretched humiliation_ that I've been so slow and lacking in my own contributions to the graph. (Lest we forget, _The Scintillating But Ultimately Untrue Thought_ is [_more than a year old_](/2016/Sep/apophenia/), and I've barely _begun_ the Sequence of things I've wanted to say for a long time.)
I bought a copy of _Counterexamples in Topology_, and a short story collection with a 2017 copyright date, subtitled _The New Trans Erotic_ [_sic_]—research for the blog, I told myself; I should understand the competition, the bright young gender-dysphoric literary minds sworn into the service of the victimhood identity-politics mind-virus and accordingly shunted down the transition track, rather than the repression track or—whatever you want to call what I'm doing. (And if _they_ can write and produce a meatspace book, why can't I?)
(a focused post explaining this slight _technical_ countercounterpoint to the morally-laudable "treat everyone as an individual" canard; use the example of guessing people's height on seeing them from afar; do the actual conjugate-prior calculation—maybe even in both directions)
+> It should be stated at the outset that for nearly all of the sex differences described throughout this book, there is an overlap in the distributions of girls and boys and women and men. As a result, none of the implications described in this chapter (or in earlier chapters) can be used to make judgements about any individual boy, girl, man, or woman
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+> David Geary, _Male, Female: The Evolution of Human Sex Differences_
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study material: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/courses/260-spring10/lectures/lecture5.pdf
> You can be butch and a trans lady and you are still a trans lady and not Really A Man.
> Genderqueer people exist.
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+But bootstrapping is real, too: https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/nonbinary-gender/
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—they're _all_ trans, and _none_ of them come _close_ to passing.
-Maybe [Good Is Dumb](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoodIsDumb) doesn't have to be [Truth in Television](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TruthInTelevision).
+Maybe [Good Is Dumb](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GoodIsDumb) doesn't _have_ to be [Truth in Television](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TruthInTelevision).
_I want to make the stupid dream real._ But to _get_ to the good world—whatever you think that is—
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> —Steven Goldberg, _Why Men Rule: A Theory of Male Dominance_
+quote that _Blindsight_ passage about an evil god setting males and females against each other
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I really hope there's a way to use frequencies and Bayes nets to disprove dysphoria→AGP causal direction, particularly because then I'll be able to call the post "Algebraic Typology"
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+I thought of this pun first/independently: https://twitter.com/WildStoryWoman/status/927514752405737474
"Read more" breaks (problem: plugin for this uses fixed length cutoff)
self-promotion: Reddit, Crossdreamers, Third Way Trans
Git server!
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+sheet music width