check in notes

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@@ -4,34 +4,27 @@ REMAINING SEGMENTS TO FILL—
 * the trouble with stickers
 * Norton story gaps
 
+REMAINING POINTS—
 
-OUTLINE OF TAIL END—
-
- * dysphoria could me more than one thing
- * in fact, it is more than one thing, per BBL
-    * and you can believe this even if you think the AGP story is wrong, I'm
-      depending on the weaker claim that the non-exclusively-androphilic
-      cluster is not an intersex condition: they start out male-typical
+    * (say) Caitlyn Jenner and Janet Mock don't _look_ like the same thing
     * passing is _hard_
-    * incl. my quip about "men who love what we _wish_ women were, and want to
-      become _that_"
     * explicitly address the "Puerto Rican women don't have exactly the same
       distribution as women as a whole, but they're still women" argument
       (distribution of MtTs isn't just different from women as a whole, it's
       actually part of the _male_ cluster, which people already have a concept
       for)
      * link "Blegg Mode" somewhere
+     * link http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail
+     * link http://lesswrong.com/lw/xe/changing_emotions/
+     * the mismatch gets _worse_ with less gatekeeping
+     * "gay" trans women are etiologically straight
+     * high dimensional spaces
 
- * "Portland"-like places have lots of trans women, and this has consequences for actual women—
-   * secret clothing swaps
-   * bathrooms
-   * sports, prisons, medicine
    * weird social taboos, stickers
    * no matter what policy decision you ultimately decide on, you need to be
      honest about the trade-offs, rather than appealing to the idiot sophistry
      of "Trans women are women, by definition"
-   * notice that re race, we _do_ say "don't care about costs to bigots"
- * Emperor Norton 
+   * address "This never happens"
 
 
 If you need a sticker to get people to gender you correctly, _your transition has failed_.
@@ -108,7 +101,8 @@ This is a question about what sort of social norms we want to establish, and dif
 
 While a minority of trans women in Western countries fit the "classical transsexual" profile of being attracted to men, displaying lifelong female-typical social behavior and interests, and transitioning early. But the majority don't fit this pattern.
 
-(To interested readers who only have time to read one paper, I recommend Anne Lawrence's ["Autogynephilia and the Typology of Male-to-Female Transsexualism: Concepts and Controversies"](http://unremediatedgender.space/papers/lawrence-agp_and_typology.pdf) For a more exhaustive treatment, see Lawrence's book [_Men Trapped in Men's Bodies_](https://surveyanon.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/men-trapped-in-mens-bodies_book.pdf) or follow the links and citations in [Kay Brown's FAQ](https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/faq-on-the-science/).)
+A review of the empirical evidence supporting the two-type taxonomy is regrettably outside the scope of this post. To interested or skeptical readers who only have time to read one paper, I recommend Lawrence's ["Autogynephilia and the Typology of Male-to-Female Transsexualism: Concepts and Controversies"](http://unremediatedgender.space/papers/lawrence-agp_and_typology.pdf) For a more exhaustive treatment, see Lawrence's book [_Men Trapped in Men's Bodies_](https://surveyanon.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/men-trapped-in-mens-bodies_book.pdf) or follow the links and citations in [Kay Brown's FAQ](https://sillyolme.wordpress.com/faq-on-the-science/).
+
 
 [caveats: take care to note that it's possible to believe in a weaker form of it: maybe you agree to the bimodality in the data, but don't think it's two discrete etiological types; or, maybe you [agree that there are two etiologies, but](https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2017/04/18/against-blanchardianism/) don't buy that AGP is the cause]
 
@@ -264,7 +258,6 @@ features         | features            | features
 blue, egg-shaped | furry, flexible     | glows, contains vanadium
 red, cube-shaped | smooth, hard        | unglowing, contains palladium
 
-link John Salvatier on "Reality has a surprising amount of detail": http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail
 
 from my SEXNET message—
 
@@ -286,3 +279,11 @@ Another (cis) female friend of the blog writes:
 
 ----
 
+Jenner transitioned at age 65
+married to women three times, fathered six children
+
+-----
+
+From my Reddit comment just now (the same point I've been aware of for a decade, but don't have in its own post anywhere; the "starting to look more like" phrasing may be new)—
+
+Consider an illustrative diagram in which there is a hard line in the combined height–weight configuration space, but the line isn't describable in terms of height or weight alone. If there were sufficiently many more traits/dimensions, we could imagine "not describable in terms of some small number of variables n" starting to look more like "not explicitly describable by humans."

diff --git a/notes/notes.txt b/notes/notes.txt
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@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ push back against the global narrative without pushing back against any particul
 
 you delusional bastards—
 * I Want to See You Be Brave
-* Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes; Or, Why I Don't Care About Your Feelings
 * Yes, the Only Real Trans Woman Is a Transitioned Trans Woman (critique of https://medium.com/@jencoates/i-am-a-transwoman-i-am-in-the-closet-i-am-not-coming-out-4c2dd1907e42#.5dlc2qog6) 
 * Review of Nevada
 
@@ -475,7 +474,7 @@ Carrie Zelda-Michelle Davis - Today at 12:04 AM
 
 to say on FB after "The Categories" is finished??
 
-So, hopefully this version is a lot clearer and less needlessly provacative than the kamikaze halt-melt-catch-fire public mental breakdown of this time last year: [blog link]
+So, hopefully this version is a lot clearer and less needlessly dramatic than my kamikaze halt-melt-catch-fire public tantrum/mental-breakdown of this time last year: [blog link]
 
 [share memory]