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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/08/government-drops-doctor-says-gender-given-birth/?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1531034286
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+https://twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/1015755975687430145
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+https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/8xa97t/culture_war_roundup_for_the_week_of_july_09_2018/e228vyj/ "Literally all they have to say is 'I'm not physically attracted to every woman in the world'" (But that's not their True Rejection! Are you really in favor of Universal Socially-Mandatory Lies?!)
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+https://where.coraline.codes/blog/oscon/
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+https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/07/06/changing-the-concept-of-woman-will-cause-unintended-harms
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+Riley is in the rewriting-her-past stage (just like all the other lesbians, I thought I had to like boys because of heteronormativity—and, "want her or be her" fantasy—only a brief mention that TERFs suck): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H34a-EIzSIs
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+What moral should we derive from the experience of breaking a condom inside of a Fleshlight?
+It's like running over a pedestrian in a driving simulator
+You'd think it would teach you that such a tiny mistake could have such enormous, life-altering consequences
+Except for the context in which there are no consequences
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+DSM specifics as historical accident: https://twitter.com/BlanchardPhD/status/1023199189046579200
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+Posie Parker interview: https://auticulture.com/the-liminalist-161-posie-parker/
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+https://medium.com/@JonahMix/playing-the-intersex-card-3d95bb29ea16
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+on the internet and tell lies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHrZRJR4igQ
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+just watched "Return to Tomorrow"—so wait, Kirk _and_ Spock both got to be women??
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+pity for the secret-sharing squirrels https://cptsdcarlosdevil.tumblr.com/post/176414647498/i-think-a-lot-of-my-relationship-advice-is-deeply
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+notable for the IRB-servitude if nothing else: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/114404/how-to-query-gender-in-a-multiple-choice-poll-survey
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+https://twitter.com/compiledwrong/status/994263573512601600 "How long does it take you to stop feeling like a guest in the house after you join a new company?"—when I feel OK about always choosing the female variant reaction emoji
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+https://twitter.com/turnthetide2018/status/1023959468764213248
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+http://andrewgelman.com/2007/08/14/more_taboo_rese/
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+http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/howie_carr/2018/08/howie_carr_jim_lyons_out_pcs_the_democrats The only thing that would make this story more entertaining is if the Democrats bit the bullet and approved every amendment. (Or earnestly debated that e.g. there should be exactly one of "cis female" and "cis woman" &c.)
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+I should read Li Kung and Hines 2017 https://twitter.com/rftbk/status/1027314120381620230
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+The Rust survey asks: "If you find it difficult to participate in the Rust community, and feel comfortable giving more details, please tell us what makes it difficult" with the subhead "Optional. Please share only what you are comfortable sharing". I write: "I have some nuanced and detailed views on transgender issues that I suspect might make me a target for exclusion if people knew about them? Mostly this doesn't matter (the community is focused on technology, as it should be), but it does feel slightly sad to be socially incentivized to separate the technology-focused and sociopolitically-focused aspects of one's public intellectual persona (by having a second blog under a pseudonym, &c.) in a way that people with other views probably aren't."
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+what can go wrong: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/95z2zj/i_dont_think_im_going_to_my_girls_hobby_club/
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+Tail pasted a graph from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7895384_Masculine_Girls_and_Feminine_Boys_Genetic_and_Environmental_Contributions_to_Atypical_Gender_Development_in_Early_Childhood that showed heritable/shared/nonshared bars
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+https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/online-dating-out-of-your-league/567083/
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+https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/us/target-transgender-idaho-voyeurism.html?_r=0
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+On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Zack M. Davis <main@zackmdavis.net> wrote:
+The family resemblance between me and my sister is quite striking (much more so, I think, than the resemblance between us and either parent); we have the same nose, same dark hair that curls into raidus-half-inch helices, maybe similar mannerisms, probably similar cognitive profiles. Unlike me, my sister is socially well-adjusted. [...] If it's actually the case that one's will is subtly out of alignment with a hypermajority of healthy people in ways that are predictable and causally related to one's medical condition, that might be really disappointing from some grand fun-theoretic universe-design sense, but in the real world where one is not God and everything outside of one's skull is a constant, not being delusional about the degree of alignment might actually be useful in learning how to cooperate better, if mere cooperation is the best we can do.
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+https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/business/media/charlottesville-jason-kessler-npr.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur
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+Scattered Personal Reflections After a Tech Conference; Or, Smile More; https://rust-lang.github.io/rustconf-2018-keynote/#56
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+AGP-motivated radfem alignment https://twitter.com/michaelbeltis/status/1032042346450276352
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+Moldbug's deep rhetorical game: https://theotherlifenow.com/bear-traps/
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+when social-justice people say that language is "outdated", do they have an idea of what changed? There may be an uncomfortable analogy here to programmers who want to insist on the latest version of everything even when the old stuff still works!
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+https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/evkwm4/how-to-be-an-ally-to-non-binary-gender-non-conforming-people-support
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+https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoculation_theory
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+Extracted from one of my SEXNET posts—
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+Unrelatedly, Beck et al. note in passing a fascinating finding that I think deserves more examination:
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+> Gender portrayal seems to vary based on target audience. In genres and channels targeting boys, girls are more likely to be depicted as smarter, less emotional, and more technically savvy (Baker & Raney, 2007; Gerding and & Signorielli, 2014; Thompson & Zerbinos, 1995). Conversely, genres and channels targeting girl viewers depict boys as more emotional and affectionate than do boy-oriented media (Aubrey & Harrison, 2004; Hentges & Case, 2013).
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+The authors go on to state that "[i]n sum, children's media reinforce gender role binaries and suggest that our culture values strictly delineated gender roles." But left unexplained is why a culture that values strictly delineated gender roles would optimize for portraying girls with masculine-coded virtues in boys' media and boys with feminine-coded virtues in girls' media. (An alternative theory that does predict this particular datum is that media producers are incentivized to cater to children's egocentric fantasies of the other sex's psychology being more like their own ...)
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+Extracted from reply to Ozy on categories—
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+> Conversely, as far as I can tell, there has yet to be a single transgender NFL football player, while statistically there ought to be five currently playing.
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+A side note, but—this doesn't actually seem hard to explain. If the ought-to-be-five means MtFs, well, you _can't_ transition MtF and _stay_ in the NFL—HRT is going to kill your performance. Even if you think the effect size of hormones is overhyped, this is a _very_ competitive area, you can't say, "Oh, it only affected performance like ten percent, that's nothing—ten percent is _huge_." This doesn't rule out Jenner-class eggs in the NFL.
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+And if it means FtMs, well, people get into football as teenagers: there are going to be structural reasons making that difficult even if gynephilic FtMs _are_ the sort of people who would like to play (difficulty of transitioning _that_ early _and_ being stealthy about it, and difficulty of being accepted as one of the guys if you're not stealthy—let alone NFL/NCAA policy about steroid use, if the matter has even come up, which is probably hasn't)
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+The tone of the video news report here makes me nervous (_deception_ is a crime, but the fetish itself shouldn't disqualify him from being a _crossing guard_) https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/pd-gilbert-man-fakes-down-syndrome-hires-caregivers-to-bathe-him-and-change-diapers
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+This is basically the _Quillette_ article that I wanted to write: https://quillette.com/2018/09/12/stereotypes-are-often-harmful-and-accurate/
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+https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ijop.12529
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+https://lesbian-rights-nz.org/shame-receipts/
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