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+Title: Fresh Princess
+Date: 2020-01-01 
+Category: other
+Tags: cathartic
+Status: draft
+
+(After [_xkcd_ #464](https://xkcd.com/464/).)
+
+Now this is a story all about how  
+My life got flipped-turned upside down  
+And I'd like to take a minute  
+Just sit right there  
+I'll tell you how I became convinced that the 

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 "Alright."
 
-[description of other people checking in and giving their identities/pronouns http://www.pdxqcenter.org/gender-queery/ ]
+[description of other people checking in and giving their identities/pronouns http://www.pdxqcenter.org/gender-queery/ (also, misgender them as "a man", "a woman", &c.) ]
 
 "Ever since puberty, he had dreamed of being more like the women he loved and admired. In a world teeming with the wonders of modern science, _fantasy_ becomes _reality_ ..."
 

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 >
 > —Stan Kelly-Bootle
 
+(critiquing Julia Serano on trans being natural)
+> Because it's going to be the future soon
+> And I won't always be this way
+> When the things that make me weak and strange
+> Get engineered away
+> 
+> —"The Future Soon" by Jonathan Coulton

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 - meta-political—
 * The View From Nowhere
 * As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb (polarizing tribal forces—because only bad ppl talk about AGP, you need to be very DGAF about politics in order to not be locked out of the correct explanation—and even then, socialization forces might turn you against your own ppl, something I have to be wary of)
-* What You Want and What You Can Get; you can't take away transition technology; if you say it can only be used for dysphoria and not fetish, that creates an enormous incentive for self-delusion; even if someone like Kay would prefer that AGPs don't transition, at least getting ppl to admit that there are two types is a next step; maybe _after_ the trans rights movement has won, _then_ suddenly people will feel free to be non-delusional; "partial autogynephilia" may be partially GAMP, but a lot of it is compromise 
+* The Spirit of Compromise; you can't take away transition technology; if you say it can only be used for dysphoria and not fetish, that creates an enormous incentive for self-delusion; even if someone like Kay would prefer that AGPs don't transition, at least getting ppl to admit that there are two types is a next step; maybe _after_ the trans rights movement has won, _then_ suddenly people will feel free to be non-delusional; "partial autogynephilia" may be partially GAMP, but a lot of it is compromise 
 
 you delusional bastards—
 * I Want to See You Be Brave
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ My Story
 * Someone Has To Say It
 * I'm Sick of Being Lied To
 * Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See (this is important for the Bayes crowd)
+* If I Were Gender Czar (and while we're at it, someone needs to do something about the flying pig population explosion, and let's start array indices at 0.5.)
+* critique Julia Serano on nature: of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point
+* wait, even Julia Serano can't find cis women to date?? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/14/the-struggle-to-find-trans-love-in-san-francisco.html (I would expect the status boost of being a B-list activist would help; less high-status trans women have even less of a chance)
 
 criticism—
 Gender of the Gaps (you can always propose an essence when people knock down your ludicrous rationalization)