Tags: autogynephilia
Status: draft
-picking the gift on the right
+How to account for people disagreeing?
-ppl have heard a strawman of the theory, not read "Becoming What We Love"
+* ppl can have false beliefs about themselves, have to infer explanations for behavior (Julia Serano could not explain, picking the gift on the right)
+* exact type of AGP and whether you remember it in childhood make a difference in how obvious the right answer is
+* ppl have heard a strawman of the theory, not read "Becoming What We Love"; innoculated against smart version of theory
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+type of dysphoria also matters
two fictional case studies: one with childhood AGP and interpersonal fantasy, another like me (Ranma 1/2, transformation fantasies, sex differences denial, encountering AGP first)
-when they meet in Berkeley, Mark is like "You lying bastards!" and the first is like "You poor, soul, misled by the BBL lies"
+when they meet in Portland, they note their obvious similarities and know that they have to be the same type of thing (I'm actually trans, you're just AGP is not an option)
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+Mark is like "You lying bastards!" and the first is like "You poor, soul, misled by the BBL lies"
but the real takeaway is that everyone should be more skeptical of why they think they do what they do
... the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.
+Imogen Binnie's _Nevada_ (this item is reverse-scored)
This is _really important information_. This is the sort of thing that should just be in the standard sex-ed book you read at age 15 rather than having to piece it together yourself at age 28
I agree that for ppl who have _already_ bought the trans narrative, learning this information would damage their self-concept
+https://arbital.com/p/rescue_utility/
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but, conditional on it being true, do you really want to double-down on the lie forever!?!?
if you've based your identity around something so fragile that science can threaten you, maybe basing your identity that way was _not a good idea_
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> —Stretch Princess, "Dying to Begin"
-I remember having animal-transformation fantasies as a teen, and then losing interest; was I close to being on track to being a furry?
+I remember having animal-transformation fantasies as a teen, and then losing interest; was I close to being on track to being a furry? And that "Once I was a man" blog about getting transformed into clothing is what it looks like for the much rarer set of ppl for whom it really is about clothes
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Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong??
High-Dimensional Social Science and the Cluster Concept of Concepts
Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition
-Mary's Room (we have calibration to know that we're probably mostly seeing the same colors up to colorblindness and tetrachromacy, but ppl probably don't mean the same thing by "gender dysphoria" or "identity")
+Mary's Room (we have calibration to know that we're probably mostly seeing the same colors up to colorblindness and tetrachromacy, but ppl probably don't mean the same thing by "gender dysphoria" or "identity", or "sexual orientation" (ref pseudobisexuality))
The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition
Using Simple But Flawed Models Is Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model
Survey of a Crossdreamscape and Why This Is Pretty Obviously Not What Cis Women Feel About Themselves
Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See (this is important for the Bayes crowd)
Bucketing (go through Wikipedia list of trans women, categorize everyone)
Someone Has To Say It
+God, I hope it's just a coincidence that Steven Goldberg gets the fact/value thing right and everyone else gets it wrong
+horror story about trans activists being pro-porn, &c. indicating how aliens would analyze them as a subtype of males
criticism—
Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman (critique of https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42#.5dlc2qog6)
Time Travel Isn't Real
Lesser-Known Demand Curves
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cathartic—
Napoleon
70s denialists had it right