fragments— O Wad Some Power the Giftie Gie Us; Or, the Identity Dysphoria Trap (school dysphoria) Reuknighted (C. being really curious about my hair "It's complicated." "I think it sets me apart from other guys." Were we ever really living in the same world?) reanalysis of Lawrence data!!! Entangled Truths, Contagious Lies (Transgender Edition) (Eugenics Is Really Important, You Delusional Bastards) The Aristocrats Yalta (https://transblog.grieve-smith.com/the-essential-conflict/ "What's in it for me?" "You're the one who doesn't believe in personal identity—you should be happy for us") Fertility Externalize Everything "I Will Fight for the Place Where I'm Free"; Or, Stop Praising Steven Universe for LGBT Representation Worlds Collide El Goonish Shive (http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2328 http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1895) Choir "The Distance Between Mars and Venus: Measuring Global Sex Differences in Personality" http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0029265 Stop Expecting Social Reality to Make Sense re simple models are better: https://evolutionistx.wordpress.com/2017/01/12/conservatives-over-generalize-liberals-under-generalize/ clumpy thingspace!— https://darwinianreactionary.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/race-and-realism-part-2/ Michael Arc says: "some sort of discussion of the double standard while unambiguously attaching Trump and lampshading 'Locker Room Talk' would probably be valuable" Micahel Arc on nerds anchoring on explicit norms: http://lesswrong.com/lw/sq/a_genius_for_destruction/m5g Flipping the Frame Blanchardian Truth Serum— "Bayesian Truth Serum" scoring assigns more weight to "surprisingly popular" answers. Doesn't work when people are self-deceptive, I think?—in Veale's data, people think AGP applies to other people, not them https://nelmit.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/bts.pdf http://www.jaimieveale.com/publications/Masters.pdf (p. 82) push back against the global narrative without pushing back against any particular individual narrative - meta-political— * The View From Nowhere * As Well for a Sheep as a Lamb (polarizing tribal forces—because only bad ppl talk about AGP, you need to be very DGAF about politics in order to not be locked out of the correct explanation—and even then, socialization forces might turn you against your own ppl, something I have to be wary of) * The Spirit of Compromise; you can't take away transition technology; if you say it can only be used for dysphoria and not fetish, that creates an enormous incentive for self-delusion; even if someone like Kay would prefer that AGPs don't transition, at least getting ppl to admit that there are two types is a next step; maybe _after_ the trans rights movement has won, _then_ suddenly people will feel free to be non-delusional; "partial autogynephilia" may be partially GAMP, but a lot of it is compromise you delusional bastards— * I Want to See You Be Brave * Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes; Or, Why I Don't Care About Your Feelings * Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman (critique of https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42#.5dlc2qog6) * Review of Nevada the phenomenon— * Survey of a Crossdreamscape and Why This Is Pretty Obviously Not What Cis Women Feel About Themselves * Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer; Or, Could Self-Reports Really Be That Wrong?? * Reduce Gender Identities to Gender Goals ("trans" vs. "cis" only makes sense if the gradient between full-transition intervention and no intervention is sufficiently sharp) epistemology— * The Neglect of Probability Fallacy; Or, You Do Not Have an Intersex Condition * (if not super-femme, there must be some other reason ...) * High-Dimensional Social Science and the Cluster Concept of Concepts * Stereotypes, Models, and Cognition * Mary's Room (we have calibration to know that we're probably mostly seeing the same colors up to colorblindness and tetrachromacy, but ppl probably don't mean the same thing by "gender dysphoria" or "identity", or "sexual orientation" (ref pseudobisexuality); the map is not the territory) * Simple Models Plus Noise Are Better Than Pretending Not to Have a Model (because personal identity doesn't exist, comparing notes with other people and being able to learn from _their_ mistakes is more useful than just saying "everyone has their own experience") other commentary— psychological sex differences aren't real, but gender identity is?? always nurture except when politically convenient Bucketing (go through Wikipedia list of trans women, categorize everyone) God, I hope it's just a coincidence that Steven Goldberg gets the fact/value thing right and everyone else gets it wrong horror story about trans activists being pro-porn, &c. indicating how aliens would analyze them as a subtype of males * Engineering possibilities (Anne Lawrence identitfy early); people say they wish they could have transitioned younger if they knew it were possible (https://twitter.com/argumentshop/status/815633404943183872), but part of the reason people don't know it's possible is because AGP fantasy is the strongest diagnostic criterion and everyone is lying about this rachet effect (http://transblog.grieve-smith.com/the-slippery-slope/) (I can't imagine self with short hair) My Story * Collective Debt, Collective Shame (what I wanted to say to /r/GenderCritical, why it didn't work, even if they're not so hostile towards Miranda Yardley or the androphilic MtTs who post) * Someone Has To Say It * I'm Sick of Being Lied To * Falsifiability and What We Expect Not to See (this is important for the Bayes crowd) * If I Were Gender Czar (and while we're at it, someone needs to do something about the flying pig population explosion, and let's start array indices at 0.5.) * critique Julia Serano on nature: of course trans genders are less natural; that's the entire fucking point * wait, even Julia Serano can't find cis women to date?? http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/14/the-struggle-to-find-trans-love-in-san-francisco.html (I would expect the status boost of being a B-list activist would help; less high-status trans women have even less of a chance) * the Spirit of the Staircase * the intellectually-honest, transhumanist version of trans rights * entangled truths, contagious lies: https://autogynephiliatruth.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/gender-identity-exists-to-create-special-framework-for-health-insurance-payments/ putting the trans in transdermal putting the cis in decision criticism— Gender of the Gaps (you can always propose an essence when people knock down your ludicrous rationalization) Time Travel Isn't Real cathartic— Napoleon 70s denialists had it right pages— compile papers ---- Getting It Right the First Time Psychological Theories Predict Behavior, Not Just Self-Reports My Delusional Paraphilia Is the Best Delusional Paraphilia in the World Dual-Role Transvestism for the 21st Century (I pass as college educated) my upsetness at trans activists not respecting _my_ lived experience as AGP is reminicent of narcisstic rage in ppl hwo at some point, I want to work in the idea that AGP is a good thing because it's a pro-androgyny force in a world that is otherwise way too gendered for my tastes counterfeit utility because we're not narcissists http://elegantgatheringofwhitesnows.com/?p=2270 euphoric effects of E are a placebo effect! https://autogynephiliatruth.wordpress.com/about/#comment-155 very vague childhood memory of wanting to play with my pecs? Is it real?? I'm happy for people to rebuild their lives around a paraphilia. I'm not happy for people to rebuild their lives around a _bad explanation_. The Girl in the Mirror The Hand I Was Dealt A Man With a Transfeminine Side The Man With the Nonstandard Hormone Balance not a masculine, macho man, but, you know, the biologically-male kind of man https://transwidow.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/the-masculinity-of-mtf-transition/ Blanchard tweets me: https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/830580552562524160 the story about being on the Portland MAX train and talking to Dap, and then saying hi to the woman marketing opportunity? https://bannedbytrans.wordpress.com/speaking-out-against-transactivist-silencing-tactics/ _Someone_ has to be _that asshole_ who says the true thing that everyone else is too cowardly to say, and I guess it's going to have to be me, Taylor Saotome-Westlake. get girl, be girl tailcalled's survey: https://www.reddit.com/r/GCdebatesQT/comments/6hp72p/are_agps_misogynist_results_from_a_survey/ "I was already presenting as female online, and in the pretty niche stuff I was playing around with it seemed like I was a novelty to devs. I got more than a few questions about how I was a girl – who liked computers! The tone was always friendly, but the undertone was clear: I was weird." https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/there-and-back-again (The devs' surprise is making a _correct prediction_) sorry Dad https://twitter.com/HandOnHilt/status/876880147152072704 http://www.translucidcomic.com/comic/the-pair/ too picky http://pbfcomics.com/comics/matched/ (early play behavior predicts later aggression) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-017-1005-6 (empathizing and systematizing) http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0031661 https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/883902728849809409 "being nice to people with a weird disorder but not so nice you forget you're just humoring them" (Yes, exactly) women do worse on Asch; in contrast, trans women are _selected_ for nonconformity original research post?— the Hsu–Bailey autopedophilia paper finds a much higher rate of ETLE in pedophiles than in normal men (they say they found 15% AGP in the Mechanical Turk sample gathered for their earlier psychometrics-of-AGP work, but oddly, the psychometrics-of-AGP paper doesn't seem to mention this?? Maybe ask Bailey to clarify sometime??); could this be evidence for the developmental competition effect? (Pedophiles thankfully don't get to actualize their desires, so they fall into ETLI instead?) Similarly, concerning the high IQ of AGP trans women not just being a selection effect: maybe it's because smart people don't get laid (remember that study about a huge fraction of MIT grad students being virgins) http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118329 https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05807 (via https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/6xkyyu/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_following/dmk92dw/) prental T and gynephilia in women and women-adj https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/905572666332987392 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0018506X16301222