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+Title: Lies to Cis People Are, Unfortunately, Still Lies
+Date: 2020-01-01 
+Category: commentary
+Tags: epistemology, ozy
+Status: draft
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+This post is a response to Ozymandias's ["Lies to Cis People"](https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/lies-to-cis-people/), and is part of my [continuing attempt](http://unremediatedgender.space/tag/ozy/) to overthrow them as _de facto_ Gender Czar of the _Less Wrong_ diaspora. (Nothing personal, Ozy! I still like you!—it's just that the people deserve more cold-hearted cosmic horror–inducing reductionism than they're currently getting.)
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+Ozymandias appeals to the concept of _lies-to-children_: simple models that fail to , but which are worth teaching and diseminating on the grounds of their practical utility. Lies-to-children 
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+It's important to distinguish
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+> It gives the average cis person the necessary information to treat trans people respectfully. Which is ... pretty much exactly the information they need
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+> Just because you were born with a vagina does not mean you are a woman.
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+Just because you were born with a vagina does not mean you are a woman with respect to the concept of womanhood 
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+> Being trans is not the same thing as being really really gay.
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+Androphilic trans women and gynephilic trans men are, etiologically speaking
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+> You can be butch and a trans lady and you are still a trans lady and not Really A Man.
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+> Genderqueer people exist.