X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2F2016%2Freply-to-ozy-on-two-type-mtf-taxonomy.md;h=e0effd66c339bd84c792fb66b3a318f0ad19ed60;hp=34663de91f1010b6126f761e8f4f39980ea84b67;hb=HEAD;hpb=c2df1b31b217b9b4b88ac92de09d27dfdf43abc9 diff --git a/content/2016/reply-to-ozy-on-two-type-mtf-taxonomy.md b/content/2016/reply-to-ozy-on-two-type-mtf-taxonomy.md index 34663de..3030631 100644 --- a/content/2016/reply-to-ozy-on-two-type-mtf-taxonomy.md +++ b/content/2016/reply-to-ozy-on-two-type-mtf-taxonomy.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Title: Reply to Ozymandias on Two-Type MtF Taxonomy Date: 2016-11-24 20:46 Category: commentary -Tags: two-type taxonomy +Tags: two-type taxonomy, Ozy This post is a response to Ozymandias's ["Thoughts on The Blanchard/Bailey Distinction"](https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2016/11/22/thoughts-on-the-blanchardbailey-distinction/) (and is [cross-posted to the comments](https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2016/11/22/thoughts-on-the-blanchardbailey-distinction/comment-page-1/#comment-23088) there). @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ It's not so much that autogynephiles _can't_ transition early—like you say, yo > Why would it cause one to not pass as well? Surely fetishizing being an attractive woman would cause one to have a lot of motivation to be an attractive woman. -Part of it is going to be age of transition, as you note. Another part is that there's lot of subtly gendered behavioral stuff that we _don't know how to fix_ independently of _motivation_, things you might not _notice_ as part of the female-typical phenotype until you meet an autogynephilic trans woman who doesn't have them. [Motor behaviors](https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/all-the-wrong-moves/). [Vocal mannerisms](https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/the-sound-of-your-voice/). Unfortunately (heartbreakingly), this is a [hard problem](http://lesswrong.com/lw/xe/changing_emotions/)—harder than people realize! +Part of it is going to be age of transition, as you note. Another part is that there's lot of subtly gendered behavioral stuff that we _don't know how to fix_ independently of _motivation_, things you might not _notice_ as part of the female-typical phenotype until you meet an autogynephilic trans woman who doesn't have them. [Motor behaviors](https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/all-the-wrong-moves/). [Vocal mannerisms](https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2012/12/01/the-sound-of-your-voice/). Unfortunately (heartbreakingly), this is a [hard problem](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/QZs4vkC7cbyjL9XA9/changing-emotions)—harder than people realize! > the idea that very feminine gay men transition because gay men are attracted to masculine men and straight men are attracted to feminine women, so by becoming a woman they can get a more desirable sexual partner