3 > "My dear, let us hope it is not true; but, if it is true, let us hope it will not become generally known."
5 > —[probably apocryphal](http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/09/darwinism-hope-pray/) reaction to Darwin's theory of natural selection
7 > "—but if one hundred thousand straights can turn up, to show their support for the gay community, why can't you?"
9 > 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."
11 > —"Cocoon" by Greg Egan
13 > I knew the mass of men conceal'd
14 > Their thoughts, for fear that if reveal'd
15 > They would by other men be met
16 > With blank indifference, or with blame reprov'd;
17 > I knew they liv'd and mov'd
18 > Trick'd in disguises, alien to the rest
19 > Of men, and alien to themselves—and yet
20 > The same heart beats in every human breast!
22 > "The Buried Life" by Matthew Arnold
24 > 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
30 (An Infovist's Advisory)
31 > I said, "The truth is whatever you can get away with."
33 > "No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape."
35 > —_Distress_ by Greg Egan
37 (Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better ...)
38 > The study of psychology is a violation of my privacy.
40 > —[@InstanceOfClass](https://twitter.com/InstanceOfClass/status/296450595420778497)
42 (response to hate mail)
43 > And believe me I am still alive
44 > I'm doing science and I'm still alive
45 > I feel fantastic and I'm still alive
46 > While you're dying I'll be still alive
47 > And when you're dead I will be still alive
49 > —_Portal_ end credits song
52 > You sound so innocent
53 > All full of good intent
54 > You swear you know best
55 > But you expect me to
56 > Jump up on board with you
57 > And ride off into your delusional sunset
59 > —"King of Anything" by Sara Bareilles
61 (Collective Guilt, Collective Shame)
62 > "My taxon, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right."
64 > —Carl Shurz (paraphrased)
66 (Blanchard's Dangerous Idea)
67 > If you could only know
70 > —[_Steven Universe_ extended theme](https://youtu.be/H23rpzOAIzQ?t=48s)
72 (sex differences are the right thing to deny)
73 > Some mommies are ranchers, or poetry makers
74 > Or doctors or teachers, or cleaners or bakers
75 > Some mommies drive taxis, or sing on TV
76 > Yeah, mommies can be almost anything they want to be!
78 > (Well, they can't be grandfathers
81 > —"Parents Are People", _Free to Be You and Me_
83 (The Gender Czar's Compromise)
84 > Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.
88 (critiquing Julia Serano on trans being natural)
89 > Because it's going to be the future soon
90 > And I won't always be this way
91 > When the things that make me weak and strange
94 > —"The Future Soon" by Jonathan Coulton
96 (how long can the lie endure?? what happens when it all falls down?)
97 > It's time to put an end to this deception
99 > When the whole thing is at an end
100 > And you learn that it's just pretend
101 > You'll cry "Deception"
103 > —"Deception", _Jem_
105 > Ooh-bi-doo, I wanna be like you
106 > I want to walk like you, talk like you, too
107 > You see it's true, an ape like me
108 > Can learn to be like you, too
110 > —"I Wanna Be Like You", _The Jungle Book_
113 Moliere on "dormative virtue"
115 (Blanchard's Dangerous Idea)
117 > The man has only one look, for Christ's sake! Crossdresser, demigirl, trans woman? They're the _same people_!
119 > Doesn't anyone notice this? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
121 > —[_Zoolander_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbKBWtoH93Q) (paraphrased)
123 > Perhaps someday we [...] will be able to forthrightly acknowledge the paraphilic hand we were dealt and play that hand without equivocation or apology.
125 > —Anne Lawrence, _Men Trapped in Men's Bodies_
127 (The Hand I Was Dealt)
128 > This is the one that I had to write
129 > It's like a letter of love with no love left out
131 > —"Dying to Begin" by Stretch Princess
133 (The Hand I Was Dealt?)
134 > I'll write my way out
135 > Write everything down, far as I can see
136 > I'll write my way out
137 > Overwhelm them with honesty
138 > This is the eye of the hurricane
139 > This is the only way I can protect my legacy
141 > —"Hurricane", _Hamilton_
144 > The other side of me
145 > I'm just like anybody else, can't you tell
148 > The girl that I want you to know
149 > If only I could show
150 > The other side, the other side, the other side of me
152 > —"The Other Side of Me" by Hannah Montana
155 > I would be your girl
157 > —"The One That Got Away" by Katy Perry
159 (Doubts, Hopes, and Trajectories)
160 > "What's it _like_ to have breasts?" I'd ask. "How does it _feel_?" It was a question women found baffling.
162 > "It doesn't feel like anything," one girl told me. "It feels like having an elbow, a nose, a toe. It just is."
164 > —Jennifer Finney Boylan, _She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders_
168 Less obviously fitting—
170 > 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.
172 > —J. Michael Bailey, _The Man Who Would Be Queen: the Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism_, Preface
174 > I cannot believe my eyes
175 > How the world's filled with filth and lies
176 > But it's plain to see
180 > —"My Eyes", _Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog_
182 > "I will destroy you and steal your fiancé, booty booty booty booty rocking everywhere!"
184 > —[from](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2HCgzxMDA) _Friendship Is Witchcraft_, "Foaly Matripony"
186 > And there's a fine, fine line
187 > Between what you wanted
189 > You've got to go after the things you want
190 > While you're still in your prime
192 > —"There's a Fine, Fine Line", _Avenue Q_
194 > I know there's more that's out there
195 > And I just haven't found it yet
196 > I know there's more that's out there
197 > Another me I haven't met
199 > —"What More Is Out There", _My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games_
201 > I don't give a damn about my reputation
202 > You're living in the past it's a new generation
203 > A girl can do what she wants to do
204 > And that's what I'm gonna do
206 > —"Bad Reputation" by Joan Jett
208 > "The Order of Silent Confessors exists in the hope that, so long as humanity is sane, it can make choices in accordance with its true desires. Thus there is our Order dedicated _only_ to that, and sworn not to interfere in politics. So you will spend more time discussing this scenario, my lords, my ladies, and only then generate solutions. And then ... you will decide."
210 > —[_Three Worlds Collide_](http://lesswrong.com/lw/y6/war_andor_peace_28/) by Eliezer Yudkowsky
212 > 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.
214 > There is only one reality that generates all of the observations.
216 > If different observations seem to point in incompatible directions, it means the true hypothesis is one you haven't thought of yet.
218 > —_Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality_ by Eliezer Yudkowsky
220 > I don't want to sabotage you
221 > But you see, I've got to try
223 > —"I'll Fly", _My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic_
225 > Sometimes the things you want
226 > Are not the things you need
227 > And it was right there in front of me
229 > —"Right There in Front of Me", _My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games_
231 http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit/