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-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:
+In chapter 5 ("Blind Spots: On Subconscious Sex and Gender Entitlement") of her book _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:
 
 > Many cissexual people seem to have a hard time accepting the idea that they too have a subconscious sex [...] I do believe that it is possible for cissexuals to catch a glimpse of their subconscious sex. When I do presentations on trans issues, I try to accomplish this by asking the audience a question: "If I offered you ten million dollars under the condition that you live as the other sex for the rest of your life, would you take me up on the offer?" **While there is often some wiseass in the audience who will say "Yes,"** the vast majority of people shake their heads to indicate "No."
 
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 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—
+The logic of normative decisionmaking given limited resources is well-studied under the name _microeconomics_, one prominent feature of which is the _law of demand_: as something becomes cheaper, people demand more of it. The law of demand can be seen as a consequence of the principle of _marginalism_: decisions are made "on the margin", relative to an agent's current situation. Rather than needing or not-needing some good as a discrete binary, there exists a tension between the agent's need and its ability to do without, the balance between which is 
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+If you're trans, you _need_ to transition, and if you're not-trans, then you mustn't
 
-* law of demand
-* marginalism
+POINTS TO HIT IN THE REMAINDER OF THIS POST—
 * 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
 
-If you're trans, you _need_ to transition, and if you're not-trans, then you mustn't
+TODO links:
+* A. Grieve-Smith on spectrum of transition-need: https://transblog.grieve-smith.com/2017/01/28/all-other-things-being-equal/
+* Econlib on marginalism: http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Marginalism.html