continuing to draft "Lesser Known Demand Curves"

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 Title: Lesser-Known Demand Curves
 Date: 2020-01-01 
 Category: commentary
-Tags: epistemology, Julia Serano
+Tags: bullet-biting, epistemology, Julia Serano
 Status: draft
 
 In chapter 5 ("Blind Spots: On Subconscious Sex and Gender Entitlement") of her _Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity_,  Julia Serano argues that both trans and non-trans people's gender sentiments are rooted in _subconscious sex_, "a deep-rooted understanding of what sex their bodies should be." She writes:
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 It's [not that self-reports must necessarily be interpreted literally](/2016/Sep/psychology-is-about-invalidating-peoples-identities/), nor that wiseasses don't exist, nor even that wiseass-<em>Yes</em>es are likely to be rarer than genuine-<em>Yes</em>es.
 
-Rather, speaking as someone who has gender problems and is [interested in doing _something_ about them](/output/tag/not-a-transition/) while also having strong reservations about what actually-transitioning would do to my health and social life, I'm wary that conceptions of transness that model it as an atomic quality intrinsic to a person (gender identity, subconscious sex, _&c._) tend to 
+Rather, speaking as someone who has gender problems and is [interested in doing _something_ about them](/tag/not-a-transition/) while also having strong reservations about what actually-transitioning would do to my health and social life, I'm wary that conceptions of transness that model it as a preëxisting atomic quality intrinsic to a person (whether it's called _gender identity_, _subconscious sex_, or something else) tend to obscure the the reality that the act of transitioning is, necessarily, [_a choice_](https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/1327/)—an _important_ choice that needs to be made on the basis of a careful consideration of _all_ the costs and benefits, including base, temporal concerns like personal finance.
 
+POINTS TO HIT IN THE REMAINDER OF THIS POST—
 
+* law of demand
+* marginalism
+* intrinsic identity is the special case when demand is highly inelastic
+* $10M is a life-changing amount of money; not surprising that it could push people over the edge
 
-maybe she has further evidence
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-ponytail is a tell
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-It's common to conceive of transness (gender identity, subconscious sex, _&c._) as a quality intrinsic to a person, that exists whether or not
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-https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/1327/
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+If you're trans, you _need_ to transition, and if you're not-trans, then you mustn't