check in

diff --git a/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md b/content/drafts/book-review-facing-reality.md
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@@ -166,3 +166,9 @@ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE5QcD_12fQ
 
 printing IQ in the NYT in 1969!!!
 https://www.unz.com/isteve/news-that-used-to-be-fit-to-print/
+
+https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/X9Rk4rXSMnKfYLq5r/a-brief-review-of-current-and-near-future-methods-of-genetic
+
+http://web.archive.org/web/20201101001637/https://www.unz.com/isteve/fbi-murder-offender-ratio-for-blacks-nonblacks-ratio-for-males-females/
+
+https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-statistics-dont-capture-the-full-extent-of-the-systemic-bias-in-policing/

diff --git a/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md b/notes/a-hill-of-meaning-sections.md
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@@ -374,4 +374,6 @@ https://archive.is/Ecsca
 my rationalist community has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my community's name
 
 cite to "Not Especially Related to Transgender"
-https://twitter.com/fortenforge/status/1402057829142302721
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+https://twitter.com/fortenforge/status/1402057829142302721
+
+"Hero Licensing": to provide an earnest-token of all the techniques I couldn't show

diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
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@@ -2703,3 +2703,23 @@ https://transsubstantiation.com/a-letter-to-anne-lawrence-709fac0af75e
 
 > Someone recently likened AGP to the movie Get Out
 https://ovarit.com/o/ItsAFetish/35359/silicone-female-body-suit-links-to-amazon/fc473510-7d4a-4e11-af9c-7b7fadfdb551#comment-fc473510-7d4a-4e11-af9c-7b7fadfdb551
+
+------
+
+Can ... can I ask you a question about your beliefs? (Not to argue, but to understand; I wouldn't spend bandwidth asking if my Intellectual Turing Test procedure could predict what your reply, but I can't predict it.)
+
+I thought your position was (my attempted paraphrase—) "Gender is a social category; it's better to let people choose it freely rather than tying it to assigned sex at birth."
+
+But I'm having trouble reconciling that with the language of "now they think they might be a girl [...] Some people who think they might be a girl are really sure, and some aren't sure", which suggests there's a pre-existing underlying fact of the matter. 
+
+If you believe it's a social category that people should be able to self-designate into, wouldn't you use language that describes it as a choice or preference rather than an underlying fact? That is, you'd say "aren't sure whether they _prefer_ to be a girl" rather than "aren't sure whether they _are_ a girl".
+
+------
+
+"How Mainstream Trans Narratives are Harmful"
+https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2RqxAasmH4
+
+https://scarlettphoenix.substack.com/p/detransition-diary-1
+
+"When Selves Have Sex: What the Phenomenology of Trans Sexuality Can Teach About Sexual Orientation"
+https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00918369.2014.865472

diff --git a/notes/post_ideas.txt b/notes/post_ideas.txt
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@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 Active—
+_ "Why the Hell It Means So Much to Me"
 _ Blood Is Thicker Than Water
 _ Book Review: Charles Murray's Facing Reality: Two Truths About Race in America
 _ There Should Be a Closetspace/Lease Bound Crossover Fic
@@ -6,6 +7,7 @@ _ There Should Be a Closetspace/Lease Bound Crossover Fic
 2021 significant posts—
 _ Trans Kids on the Margin, and Harms From Misleading Training Data
 _ Blanchard's Dangerous Idea and the Plight of the Lucid Crossdreamer
+_ Challenges to Yudkowsky's Pronoun Reform Proposal
 _ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
 
 Minor queue—

diff --git a/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md b/notes/trans-kids-on-the-margin-notes.md
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@@ -437,3 +437,9 @@ Well, yes
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 https://www.fatherly.com/health-science/what-age-do-transgender-kids-know-trans/
+
+https://www.facebook.com/groups/2264685517005985/posts/3513322952142229/
+> The kind of thing I find when cleaning Lily's room. The other day she made a petition to "save animals" but neither Jeff nor I would sign I unless she made it more specific.
+> [image, drawing] SAVE OUR PLANIT FRUM GRENHEWS GASIS
+
+You