X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2F2017%2Flesser-known-demand-curves.md;h=2a63f07a897102400e2cf7124c540c6398205350;hp=91e7950544e6a49182c64e82134af9898e3489f2;hb=fd8ab6f1c85b4ee20fd68f445f07cd674c11d400;hpb=87389b532d0167f038526ec65d2bf8bd3582ab2b diff --git a/content/2017/lesser-known-demand-curves.md b/content/2017/lesser-known-demand-curves.md index 91e7950..2a63f07 100644 --- a/content/2017/lesser-known-demand-curves.md +++ b/content/2017/lesser-known-demand-curves.md @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Empirically, [there are](https://transblog.grieve-smith.com/2017/01/28/all-other Indeed, if "transness" is a unimodal continuous quantity, we should expect there to be far more maybe-trans-under-the-right-circumstances people than people who would be "trans at any cost", for the same reason there are more "merely" six-foot-tall people than there are towering seven-foot-tall people— -![dysphoria distribution]({filename}/images/dysphoria_distribution.png) +![dysphoria distribution]({static}/images/dysphoria_distribution.png) Those of us who are dysphoric enough for the question to come up, but not so dysphoric for the answer to be overdetermined, have a serious choice to make: would a gender upgrade be worth it, taking into account everything that would be lost?—from the burden of being a lifelong medical patient, to potentially increased difficulty finding a job or a romantic partner. @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ Returning to Serano's hypothetical: $10 million is a life-changing amount of mon The intrinsic-identity view can be seen as the limiting special case of the economic view where demand for transitioning is infinitely [inelastic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticity_(economics))— -![two models of demand for transitions]({filename}/images/transition_demand.png) +![two models of demand for transitions]({static}/images/transition_demand.png) This insight helps us make sense in secular changes in the expression of gender variance. The phenomenon of [increases in transgender identification](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/health/transgender-population.html) that some commentators characterize as [_social contagion_](https://youthtranscriticalprofessionals.org/tag/social-contagion/) could also be seen as an entirely _rational_ response to incentives: as being trans becomes less costly—whether due to increased social acceptance, improvements in surgical or hormone-administration technology, or any other reason—we _should_ see more gender-dysphoric people doing something about it on the margin.