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.
+
+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″.
+
[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_.
> the massive correlation between exposure to Yudkowsky’s writings and being a trans woman (can’t bother to do the calculations but the connection is absurdly strong)
Namespace's point about the two EYs
+link back to Murray review: can't oppress people on the basis of sex if sex _doesn't exist_
+
https://surveyanon.wordpress.com/2020/10/24/is-autogynephilia-real-the-phenomenon-the-construct-the-theory/
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+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vjmw8tW6wZAtNJMKo/which-parts-are-me
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+If we _actually had_ the magical perfect sex change technology described in "Changing Emotions"—if it cost $200,000, I would take out a bank loan and _do it_, and live happily ever after.
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+(Though I'd call myself a transwoman—one word, for the same reason the _verthandi_ in "Failed Utopia #4-2" got their own word. I currently write "trans woman", two words, as a strategic concession to the shibboleth-detectors of my target audience:[^two-words] I don't want to to _prematurely_ scare off progressive-socialized readers on account of mere orthography, when what I actually have to say is already disturbing enough.)
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+people like me being incentivized to identify as part of a political pressure group that attempts to leverage claims of victimhood into claims on power
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+[fallacy of compression _ironed in to the culture_, that resists attempts to deconfuse]
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+[I know _exactly_ what's wrong with me]
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+[TODO: two-types as a first approximation]
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+[TODO: others like me, gender of the gaps]
+
+[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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+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
+
+
+as demonstrated by the likes of [FaceApp](https://www.faceapp.com/), the _uniquely best piece of software in the world_.
+
+(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.)
+
+[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
+
+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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