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@@ -1747,6 +1747,32 @@ You're always going to be dominated by _someone's_ memeplex. The question is, if
 
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+https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/dy7241/peak_trans_x_tell_your_story_here/fmg5eps/
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 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16488877
 > independent of the masculinizing effects of gonadal secretions, XY and XX brain cells have different patterns of gene expression that influence their differentiation and function
 
+Don't speak truth to power. Speak truth against your incentive gradient. I mean, _try_ to do that. You can't _literally_ do that, because you're _always_ following your incentive gradient, by definition. Speak truth against your _current model_ of your incentive gradient.
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+Theorem: when you strike at a king, you must kill him. (Credit assignment: Ralph Waldo Emerson.)
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+My restatement (yours may be different, but still): when you strike at the God-Empress—well, striking at the God-Empress wouldn't work. But when you strike at one of the God-Empress's minions, you have to either kill him or provide sufficiently strong evidence that you could kill him if you wanted.
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+give sex denialists an inch, and they'll redefine the inch to be a mile
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+"I had never settled on a form": https://i.redd.it/ygbkj3ock6x31.jpg General factor of ETLE?
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+https://dsh.fyi/posts/2020-04-14-im-trans-call-me-daisy/
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+"gender modality" https://www.florenceashley.com/academic-publications.html
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+I'm not usually—at least, not always—so much of a scrub as to play chess with a pigeon (which shits on the board and then struts around like it's won), or wrestle with a pig (which gets you both dirty, and the pig likes it), or dispute what the Tortise said to Achilles
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+https://www.jehsmith.com/1/2019/12/are-cows-adult-bovine-females.html
+https://www.jehsmith.com/1/2020/01/gendered-animal-names-a-postscript.html
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+marketing opportunity: https://www.peaktrans.org/contact/
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+https://web.archive.org/web/20160406094634/http://mariacatt.com/2016/03/31/the-adult-baby-story/