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+Title: Not All Men?
+Date: 2021-03-01
+Category: commentary
+Tags: epistemology
+Status: draft

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 https://gen.medium.com/the-sports-arena-has-become-conservatives-favorite-anti-trans-battleground-8cc3adc533cf
 
 https://wepon.tumblr.com/post/620926931352862720/my-current-top-10-favorite-posts-on-slate-star
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+I've frequently argued against the social practice of people being expected to declare (in their social media profile, or on badges at conferences) what third-person pronouns others should use to refer to oneself. The end goal of transitioning—one would think—is to be organically perceived as the sex other than one's [developmental sex](/2019/Sep/terminology-proposal-developmental-sex/).
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+What pronoun other people _naturally_ use to refer to you when they're _not_ trying to be polite, but just trying to _talk about the world they see_ in the language that comes naturally to them, is a test of whether your transition is actually _succeeding_ at the goal of changing your (perceived) sex.

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-rescure Sophia's comment on the "Wells for Boys" linkpost
+https://github.com/pelican-plugins/linkbacks/
 /count firing on individual post pages (suboptimal)
 rework footnotes plugin!? (Markdown footnote format is better than [ref][/ref] tags)
 self-host a copy of Source Sans Pro (I'm annoyed that my devserver preview fonts  are ugly when I've killed my network connection so I can focus for once)