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> Knowing his occupation and observing him briefly and superficially were sufficient, together, for me to guess confidently about aspects of Edwin's life that he never mentioned. I know what he was like as a boy. I know what kind of person he is sexually attracted to. I know what kinds of activities interest him and what kinds do not. I am least sure what he will look like five years from now.
>
> —J. Michael Bailey, _The Man Who Would Be Queen: the Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism_, Preface

(An Infovist's Advisory)
> I said, "The truth is whatever you can get away with."
>
> "No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape."
>
> —_Distress_ by Greg Egan

(Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better ...)
> The study of psychology is a violation of my privacy.
> 
> —[@InstanceOfClass](https://twitter.com/InstanceOfClass/status/296450595420778497)

> I cannot believe my eyes
> How the world's filled with filth and lies
> But it's plain to see
> Evil inside of me
> Is on the rise
>
> —"My Eyes", _Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog_

(response to hate mail)
> And believe me I am still alive
> I'm doing science and I'm still alive
> I feel fantastic and I'm still alive
> While you're dying I'll be still alive
> And when you're dead I will be still alive 
>
> —_Portal_ end credits song

(Review of Nevada)
> You sound so innocent
> All full of good intent
> You swear you know best
> But you expect me to
> Jump up on board with you
> And ride off into your delusional sunset
> 
> —"King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles

(Collective Guilt, Collective Shame)
> "My taxon, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."
>
> —Carl Shurz (paraphrased)

(Blanchard's Dangerous Idea)
> If you could only know  
> What we really are  
>
> —[_Steven Universe_ extended theme](https://youtu.be/H23rpzOAIzQ?t=48s)

> "My dear, let us hope it is not true; but, if it is true, let us hope it will not become generally known."
>
> —[probably apocryphal](http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/) reaction to Darwin's theory of natural selection

> "I will destroy you and steal your fiancé, booty booty booty booty rocking everywhere!"
>
> —[from](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2HCgzxMDA) _Friendship Is Witchcraft_, "Foaly Matripony"

(Reduce Gender Identities)
> And there's a fine, fine line
> Between what you wanted
> And what you got
> You've got to go after the things you want
> While you're still in your prime
> 
> —"There's a Fine, Fine Line", _Avenue Q_

> Some mommies are ranchers, or poetry makers
> Or doctors or teachers, or cleaners or bakers
> Some mommies drive taxis, or sing on TV
> Yeah, mommies can be almost anything they want to be!
>
> (Well, they can't be grandfathers
> Or daddies!)
>
> —"Parents Are People", _Free to Be You and Me_

> "—but if one hundred thousand straights can turn up, to show their support for the gay community, why can't you?"
>
> I said wearily, "Because every time I hear the word _community_, I know I'm being manipulated. If there is such a thing as _the gay community_, I'm certainly not a part of it. As it ahppens, I don't want to spend my life watching _gay and lesbian_ television channels, using _gay and lesbian_ new systems ... or going to _gay and lesbian_ street parades. It's all so ... proprietary. You'd think there was a multinational corporation who had the franchise rights on homosexuality. ANd if you don't _market the product_ their way, you're some kind of second-class, inferior, bootleg, unauthorized queer."
>
> —"Cocoon" by Greg Egan

(The Gender Czar's Compromise)
> Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
>
> —Stan Kelly-Bootle

(critiquing Julia Serano on trans being natural)
> Because it's going to be the future soon
> And I won't always be this way
> When the things that make me weak and strange
> Get engineered away
> 
> —"The Future Soon" by Jonathan Coulton

(how long can the lie endure?? what happens when it all falls down?)
> It's time to put an end to this deception
> But I'm afraid
> When the whole thing is at an end
> And you learn that it's just pretend
> You'll cry "Deception"
>
> —"Deception", _Jem_

> The realization blasted through Harry like a vast dam breaking, releasing out all its water, bursting through his mind in an irresistible flood that swept everything away.
>
> There is only one reality that generates all of the observations.
>
> If different observations seem to point in incompatible directions, it means the true hypothesis is one you haven't thought of yet.
>
> —_Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality_ by Eliezer Yudkowsky

> Ooh-bi-doo, I wanna be like you
> I want to walk like you, talk like you, too
> You see it's true, an ape like me
> Can learn to be like you, too
> 
> —"I Wanna Be Like You", _The Jungle Book_

Moliere on "dormative virtue"

> I don't want to sabotage you 
> But you see, I've got to try 
>
> —"I'll Fly", _My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic_

(the story of my name??)
> Sometimes the things you want 
> Are not the things you need 
> And it was right there in front of me 
>
> —"Right There in Front of Me", _My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games_

> MUGATU  
> The man has only one look, for Christ's sake! Crossdresser, demigirl, trans woman? They're the _same people_!
>
> Doesn't anyone notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
>
> —[_Zoolander_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbKBWtoH93Q) (paraphrased)

> I knew the mass of men conceal'd      
> Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd     
> They would by other men be met        
> With blank indifference, or with blame reprov'd;      
> I knew they liv'd and mov'd           
> Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest       
> Of men, and alien to themselves—and yet     
> The same heart beats in every human breast!
>
> "The Buried Life" by Matthew Arnold

> I know there's more that's out there  
> And I just haven't found it yet  
> I know there's more that's out there  
> Another me I haven't met  
>
> —"What More Is Out There", _My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games_

> I don't give a damn about my reputation
> You're living in the past it's a new generation
> A girl can do what she wants to do
> And that's what I'm gonna do
>
> —"Bad Reputation" by Joan Jett

> All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world
>
> —Thomas Jefferson

http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/

(The Hand I Was Dealt)
> This is the one that I had to write
> It's like a letter of love with no love left out
>
> —"Dying to Begin" by Stretch Princess

(The Hand I Was Dealt)
> I'll write my way out  
> Write everything down, far as I can see  
> I'll write my way out  
> Overwhelm them with honesty  
> This is the eye of the hurricane  
> This is the only way I can protect my legacy  
>
> —"Hurricane", _Hamilton_

> If you could see  
> The other side of me  
> I'm just like anybody else, can't you tell  
> I hold the key  
> To both realities  
> The girl that I want you to know  
> If only I could show  
> The other side, the other side, the other side of me  
>
> —"The Other Side of Me" by Hannah Montana

> In another life
> I would be your girl
>
> —"The One That Got Away" by Katy Perry

(Doubts, Hopes, and Trajectories)
> "What's it _like_ to have breasts?" I'd ask. "How does it _feel_?" It was a question women found baffling.
>
> "It doesn't feel like anything," one girl told me. "It feels like having an elbow, a nose, a toe. It just is."
>
> —Jennifer Finney Boylan, _She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders_