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 > —[Greg Cochran](https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2015/12/12/internal-contradictions/)
 
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+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 every 
 
 ... the scintillating but ultimately untrue thought.
 
 
+There's this an empricial structure to the world that _doesn't go away_ 
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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.