1 Title: There's a Land That I See; Or, the Spirit of Intervention
7 > If you want to make your stupid dream real, you need to have a realistic picture of the world. If you want a society in which men and women have the same brain, or one in which feminism actually works, you would have to _make it so_, with advanced biological engineering. John Varley writes fiction: so did Joanna Russ.
9 > —[Greg Cochran](https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/internal-contradictions/)
13 ... the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.
17 Psychological sex differences are
19 http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biology-is-mutable/
23 I _want_ to believe that sex differences in personality and interests are small-to-nonexistent. I _want_ to believe that trans women are women.
25 out of the three women present—
27 (or four if you believe in gender identities, because on that worldview, I'm obviously a trans woman in denial)
29 —they're _all_ trans, and _none_ of them come _close_ to passing.
34 _I want to make the stupid dream real._ But to _get_ to the good world—whatever you think that is—
36 ... you're going to have to bootstrap from _today's_, unremediated, genderspace. Which requires _understanding_ it first.