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 > —[Greg Cochran](https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/internal-contradictions/)
 
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+We socially-liberal people—I _hope_ I'm still allowed to use the first person here, although the reader will ultimately judge that for herself—
 
 ... the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.
 
 
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+Psychological sex differences are 
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+http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biology-is-mutable/
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+I _want_ to believe that sex differences in personality and interests are small-to-nonexistent. I _want_ to believe that trans women are women. 
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+out of the three women present—
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+(or four if you believe in gender identities, because on that worldview, I'm obviously a trans woman in denial)
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+—they're _all_ trans, and _none_ of them come _close_ to passing.
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 _I want to make the stupid dream real._ But to _get_ to the good world—whatever you think that is—
 
-... you're going to have to bootstrap from _today's_, unremediated, genderspace. Which requires _understanding_ it first.
+... you're going to have to bootstrap from _today's_, unremediated, genderspace. Which requires _understanding_ it first.