learned things in the wrong order
-Anyway, I kind of spent the next ten years reading everything I could about sex and gender and transgender and feminism and evopsych and doing various things with my social presentation—sometimes things I regretted and reverted after a lot of pain—to try to seem not-masculine, all the while assuming that my gender problems were clearly not the same thing as the gender problems of actual trans women, because the standard narrative is that that's about gender identity being discordant from sex assigned at birth, which was clearly not what my thing was. I thought, essentially, "Gee, it's too bad this beautiful word which so perfectly describes the beautiful feeling at the center of my life happened to be coined in the context of this controversial theory about the etiology of MtF transsexualism which is probably false because everyone says it's obviously false."
+Anyway, I kind of spent the next ten years reading everything I could about sex and gender and transgender and feminism and evopsych and doing various things with my social presentation—sometimes things I regretted and reverted after a lot of pain—to try to seem not-masculine,
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+all the while assuming that my gender problems were clearly not the same thing as the gender problems of actual trans women,
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+because the standard narrative was that that's
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+up through 2016 I was grappling with these issues,
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+I'm weird, but I'm not _that_ weird.
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+about gender identity being discordant from sex assigned at birth,
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+which was clearly not what my thing was.
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+I thought, essentially, "Gee, it's too bad this beautiful word which so perfectly describes the beautiful feeling at the center of my life happened to be coined in the context of this controversial theory about the etiology of MtF transsexualism which is probably false because everyone says it's obviously false."
inference by analogy—even if not all trans women are exactly like me, at least a lot of them are going to be similar
[stonewalling](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wqmmv6NraYv4Xoeyj/conversation-halters)
-I'm 5′11″, which [puts me at](https://dqydj.com/height-percentile-calculator-for-men-and-women/) the 73rd percentile for men, about 6/10ths of a standard deviation above the mean. So my female analogue at the 73rd percentile for women would be about 5′5½″.
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[sympathetic minds gay couples anecdote]
Anne Lawrence described autogynephiles as ["men who love women and want to become what they love."](/papers/lawrence-becoming_what_we_love.pdf) But it's worse than that. We're men who love what we _wish_ women were, and want to become _that_.
[TODO: the last sequence was "Craft and the Community", which has aged by far the worst—part of the robot cult's "common interest of many causes" was getting everything right, including reformulating trans ideology to be sane, which should benefit everyone because of dark-side-epistemology—but that's not realistic]
-[TODO: are we getting new recruits? A lot of the names I see are old]
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+[TODO: are we getting new recruits? A lot of the names I see are old]
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+Yudkowsky says trans rights!
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+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jMTbQj9XB5ah2maup/similarity-clusters
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/cFzC996D7Jjds3vS9/arguing-by-definition
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+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9QxnfMYccz9QRgZ5z/the-costly-coordination-mechanism-of-common-knowledge
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+as demonstrated by the likes of [FaceApp](https://www.faceapp.com/), the _uniquely best piece of software in the world_.
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+(Note that we can already basically do this for _images_ of female and male faces, using the [latent spaces found by generative adversarial networks]() and [autoencoders](),
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+Doing it for _actual whole people in the real world_ and not just flat images is a task for future superintelligences, not present-day GANs, but some of same basic principles should apply.)
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+[TODO: Mathematically,
+Joel et al. and response—maybe in next paragraph
+Beyond the Binary: https://www.pnas.org/content/112/50/15468
+http://cogprints.org/10046/1/Delgiudice_etal_critique_joel_2015.pdf
+
+
+> once you draw a boundary around a group, the mind starts trying to harvest similarities from the group. And unfortunately the human pattern-detectors seem to operate in such overdrive that we see patterns whether they're there or not; a weakly negative correlation can be mistaken for a strong positive one with a bit of selective memory.
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/veN86cBhoe7mBxXLk/categorizing-has-consequences
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+96.8% classification from MRI https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6374327/
+]
+[the wrists: http://unremediatedgender.space/papers/yune_et_al-beyond_human_perception_sexual_dimorphism_in_hand_and_wrist_radiographs.pdf]
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+Face editing with Generative Adversarial Networks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCKbRCUyop8
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