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diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-human-diversity.md b/content/drafts/book-review-human-diversity.md
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 Tags: review (book), ancestry groups, sex differences
 Status: draft
 
+This is a pretty good book about some ways in which people are different from each other! In my last review, 
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diff --git a/content/drafts/honesty-is-activism-or-i-want-to-see-you-be-brave.md b/content/drafts/honesty-is-activism-or-i-want-to-see-you-be-brave.md
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+Title: Honesty Is Activism; Or, "I Want to See You Be Brave"
+Date: 2020-01-01 
+Category: commentary
+Tags: discourse, epistemology
+Status: draft
+
+> 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"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQsqBqxoR4) by Sara Bareilles
+
+
+
+
+Honestly. I want to see you be brave.
+

diff --git a/content/drafts/i-want-to-live.md b/content/drafts/i-want-to-live.md
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+Title: I Want to Live
+Date: 2020-01-01
+Category: other
+Tags: personal
+Status: draft
+
+too much meat and cheese and coffee and sweets and self-abuse-not-otherwise-categorized
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-Title: I Want to See You Be Brave
-Date: 2020-01-01 
-Category: commentary
-Tags: discourse, epistemology
-Status: draft
-
-> 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
-
-
-https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/it-must-be-said/
-
-the people you're afraid of aren't going to read a blog whose URL is _unremediatedgender.space_
-
-[Felix Conrad](http://transcendmovement.com/felix-conrad-confesses-that-he-secretly-believes-in-autogynephilia/)—
-
-[link is dead, but it's allegedly in his Kindle book]
-
-> Imagine the following scenario: a researcher discovers that one ethnic group has a lower IQ than another and that the cause is genetic–not educational. In my opinion that research is as dangerous as a toxic virus and I’d wipe any hard drive that contained such research. That is intellectual integrity in my opinion. 
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-Honestly. I want to see you be brave.

diff --git a/notes/cloacal_exstrophy.md b/notes/cloacal_exstrophy.md
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+Money-influenced practioners would raise genetic males as females
+
+cloacal exstrophy rare birth defect where organs are exposed
+before 1959, no survivors
+
+author's study of 29 genetic males, 24 were raised female
+20 of 24 had a sister
+
+13 have declared themselves male (6 spontaneously, 7 after being informed)
+7 still ID as female
+
+"two others have refused persistently to declare gender identity (although both, at age 15 years, recently agreed to estrogen administration)"
+
+> Parents of subjects who live as female noted that their children are happy. These subjects were not as socially active as their male counterparts, especially into mid-adolescence. Generally, they reported having difficulty fitting in with girls as they grew older.
+

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@@ -1488,3 +1488,17 @@ academic freedom on campus: https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-universit
 https://www.unz.com/isteve/post-gay-marriage-cont/
 
 "Dodging learning people's deadnames like some sort of willfully ignorant ninja." https://twitter.com/yaahc_/status/1222542847322099713
+
+https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/it-must-be-said/
+
+the people you're afraid of aren't going to read a blog whose URL is _unremediatedgender.space_
+
+[Felix Conrad](http://transcendmovement.com/felix-conrad-confesses-that-he-secretly-believes-in-autogynephilia/)—
+
+[link is dead, but it's allegedly in his Kindle book]
+
+> Imagine the following scenario: a researcher discovers that one ethnic group has a lower IQ than another and that the cause is genetic–not educational. In my opinion that research is as dangerous as a toxic virus and I’d wipe any hard drive that contained such research. That is intellectual integrity in my opinion. 
+
+Protip: you don't have to preemptively commit suicide! Wait for other people to kill you instead! (Desired privacy settings for this update: people smart enough to understand metaphors.)
+
+"how did you realize you were non-binary": https://twitter.com/QueerGirlEmilie/status/1225517017035350016