From: M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 00:39:10 +0000 (-0800) Subject: pre-publication TODOs for "Lesser-Known" X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f794cfbe3f3d52821a34bfbe2449751eebcf9a9d;p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git pre-publication TODOs for "Lesser-Known" It's important to revise and edit and think critically—but ultimately, artists ship! --- diff --git a/content/drafts/lesser-known-demand-curves.md b/content/drafts/lesser-known-demand-curves.md index fa3bf44..f070958 100644 --- a/content/drafts/lesser-known-demand-curves.md +++ b/content/drafts/lesser-known-demand-curves.md @@ -29,3 +29,11 @@ The intrinsic-identity view can be seen as the limiting special case of the econ This insight helps us make sense in secular changes in the expression of gender variance. The phenomenon of [increases in transgender identification](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/health/transgender-population.html) that some commentators characterize as [_social contagion_](https://youthtranscriticalprofessionals.org/tag/social-contagion/) could also be seen as an entirely _rational_ response to incentives: as being trans becomes less costly—whether due to increased social acceptance, improvements in surgical or hormone-administration technology, or any other reason—we _should_ see more gender-dysphoric people doing something about it on the margin. Perhaps demand is sufficiently inelastic such that the intrinsic-identity model is a good approximation. But analyses of where Society's flirtation with [the transgender tipping point](https://newrepublic.com/article/118451/what-transgender-tipping-point-really-means) is heading should take into account the extent to which, in our present state of information, we _don't know_ what the demand curve for sex changes looks like. + +PREPUBLICATION TODO— +* less schoolish opening +* diagram +* simplification pass +* a concrete example of economic modeling of life decisions (coach suggested poor kids going to military) +* concrete example of even Julia Serano not being able to find a date +* incorporate Coach's simplification line edits if she has any