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> —[Greg Cochran](https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/internal-contradictions/)
+We socially-liberal individualist/feminist people—I _hope_ I'm still allowed to use the first person here, although the reader will ultimately judge that for herself—have this beautiful moral ideal, where we want all human beings to be free to maximize their potential, unencumbered by oppressive cultural traditions specifying roles and destinies in advance. We want everyone to be judged on her or his _own_ merits rather than treated as a representative of their race or sex.
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+And _because_ we care about the beautiful moral ideal, we tend to assume that psychological group differences don't exist or are superficial or are socially-constructed,
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+invidious distinction
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+(... the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.)
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+And this is _so crazy_ on _multiple levels_.
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+analogy to spelling
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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.
-... the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.
_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.
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