From da7e5b5b3b0f195107c2f0b0848849e8bdf062a1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "M. Taylor Saotome-Westlake" Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 12:31:41 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] begin drafting "Lies to Cis People Are, Unfortunately, Still Lies" --- ...cis-people-are-unfortunately-still-lies.md | 26 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/drafts/lies-to-cis-people-are-unfortunately-still-lies.md diff --git a/content/drafts/lies-to-cis-people-are-unfortunately-still-lies.md b/content/drafts/lies-to-cis-people-are-unfortunately-still-lies.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..18cef54 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/lies-to-cis-people-are-unfortunately-still-lies.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Title: Lies to Cis People Are, Unfortunately, Still Lies +Date: 2020-01-01 +Category: commentary +Tags: epistemology, ozy +Status: draft + +This post is a response to Ozymandias's ["Lies to Cis People"](https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2015/01/27/lies-to-cis-people/), and is part of my [continuing attempt](http://unremediatedgender.space/tag/ozy/) to overthrow them as _de facto_ Gender Czar of the _Less Wrong_ diaspora. (Nothing personal, Ozy! I still like you!—it's just that the people deserve more cold-hearted cosmic horror–inducing reductionism than they're currently getting.) + +Ozymandias appeals to the concept of _lies-to-children_: simple models that fail to , but which are worth teaching and diseminating on the grounds of their practical utility. Lies-to-children + +It's important to distinguish + +> It gives the average cis person the necessary information to treat trans people respectfully. Which is ... pretty much exactly the information they need + +> Just because you were born with a vagina does not mean you are a woman. + +Just because you were born with a vagina does not mean you are a woman with respect to the concept of womanhood + + +> Being trans is not the same thing as being really really gay. + +Androphilic trans women and gynephilic trans men are, etiologically speaking + +> You can be butch and a trans lady and you are still a trans lady and not Really A Man. + +> Genderqueer people exist. -- 2.17.1