> The central thing here is that Maria is really good at being trans.
+<u>that's</u> the takeaway?!
+
+> Yeah, Maria says, The problem with the Internet is that most of the trans women who manage to transition and still be dirtbags or punkers or weirdos or dykes or radicals or whatever stay way away from those people, too, and there's this narrative of 'deep stealth' that makes it seem like maybe we don't exist or we stop being trans but actually what happen is that we keep living our lives and being dirty weirdos we just—I should only speak for myself I guess, but I just got bored of talking about it.
+
+HSTS resentment trope
+
+> Okay sorry, Maria says, Let's not talk about capitalism or anarchism or anything except I do want to say that those things ended up being totally essential to my understanding of being trans and feminism and my location and the things that suck about being trans.
+
+she's bluffing—Maria is not theory-driven
+
+> James thinks, like, yeah and you're a heroin addict? And like, you were inevitably unhappy with your life because you're trans, right? Meaning, transition doesn't work. But what he says is, It took you a month to drive a couple thousand miles?
+
+good catch on James's part—that's like ~65 miles per day
+
+> I was like, Piranha, man, why the fuck aren't you fuckin rich, you are a genius, I said this kind of through tears, and she was like, Uh, Maria, I'm not rich because I'm trans and because I'm a woman. I was like, Oh yeah.
+
+Martine Rothblatt has more fighting spirit than that
+
+> He looks down and his body is all scrunched up, knees to his chest in the little passenger seat of this little car. He's pretty tall, which is <u>important for a lot of reasons</u>, but he's making himself tiny.
+
+Maria said he wasn't tall (p. 177)
+
+> But yeah, she says, Steph rules and is smart and good at what she's doing—she's definitely the kid who kept her principles. She works at fucking <u>Callen-Lorde</u> when she's not at work!
+
+apparently, the New York analogue of Lyon-Martin
+
+> Oh you just don't know? James says. Like nobody cheated on anybody and you didn't just stop having interests in common and you still liked all the same movies and you just looked up one day and you were like, Well see you, I think I'm gonna steal your fucking car and drive it thousands of miles to fucking Star City Nevada for no fucking reason?
+
+brutal
+
+> Here's the thing, Maria says. Nobody pays attention to J. Michael Bailey any more. He's just some dude who wrote a book about how trans women are perverts, which is an easy thing to get a press to publish. You'll never go broke selling regressive 'common sense.' But his body Kenneth Zucker is still a big deal. <u>He runs this clinic in Canada</u> and advocates like—
+
+not anymore, thanks to the likes of you
+
+I guess the <u>Archives of Sexual Behaviors</u> is still kind of a big deal
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