A rhetorical device or debating tactic used to challenge the argument that “Anyone who identifies as trans is trans/valid.”

It quotes the following 2015 anecdote from Mike Huckabee, a well-known anti-trans public figure:

“I wish someone told me in high school that I could have felt like a woman when it came time to take showers in PE. I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today.’”

The test asks whether or not this teen version of Mike Huckabee is valid as a genderfluid trans teen.

The test forces the opposing side into an ultimatum:

1) Accept the absurd, bad-faith hypothetical as a valid trans identity, validating a transphobic comment by Mike Huckabee.

2) Admit that some standards are necessary for what constitutes a “valid” trans person, in order to exclude trolls like Mike Huckabee, thereby disproving the notion that “anyone who identifies as trans is trans”.

Named in August 2025 by Haley Halcyon (@2gd4.me on Bluesky) after she, quote unquote, “decisively won an Internet debate for the first time” using this strategy. As originally explained:

“Any #transmedicalist who finds someone who parrots the sleepwoking line ‘anyone who identifies as trans is trans’ or ‘all trans people are valid’, my advice is this:
• Apply the Genderfluid Mike Huckabee Test.
• Don’t let off when they try to deflect.
• Point out the gate they implicitly keep.”
Her argument for self-ID, total bodily autonomy, and zero gatekeeping was a crowdpleaser, until I hit her with the Genderfluid Mike Huckabee Test and she ragequit.
by the riverside August 09, 2025
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angerisk

The 💢 symbol used in manga to signify anger by placing it on someone’s head, originally representing bulging veins. “Angerisk” is a portmanteau of “anger” and “asterisk”, which is the name of the * symbol.
Place an angerisk at the end of the message, so you can show you’re mad but not like in a serious ways
by the riverside April 23, 2025
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Speedy Gonzales effect

a phenomenon where a creative work (e.g. a character or a song) is criticized to be stereotypical and degrading by white people, but beloved by the minority that they say they degrade
In the US, Avril Lavigne’s song “Hello Kitty” was slammed for racially stereotyping and sexualizing Japanese people, but it was received positively in Japan, since Lavigne has always publicly appreciated Japanese culture. The song is an instance of the Speedy Gonzales effect.
by the riverside September 08, 2023
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mspec lesbian

“Mspec” is another term for “bisexual”, which means not exclusively attracted to any gender.

“Lesbian” means a woman exclusively attracted to any gender.

As such, an “mspec lesbian” is a woman who is not a lesbian but wants to culturally appropriate lesbians. This is clear from how self-proclaimed “mspec lesbians” try to justify their contradictory label by claiming that they are connected to lesbian culture.

See also: meat-eating vegan, non-dysphoric trans, Christian atheist
Mspec lesbians are a logical contradiction and cannot exist. Claiming they do is lesbophobia.
by the riverside March 27, 2025
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whyn'tcha

an even shorter form of "why don'tcha", itself short for "why don't you"
"Get the hell out!" "Whyn'tcha make me?"
by the riverside June 08, 2025
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smartass TV

A smart TV that doesn’t fucking need to be one.

So every smart TV.
Nobody would ever want to have a smartass TV that collects your data, shows you ads, and has a wiretap that goes straight to the government.
by the riverside November 15, 2023
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bottom left

Perverted and stupid. Originates from one Hololive stream where the Vtubers were rated on an alignment chart of how pure (seiso) they are and how smart they are.
lmao your oshi is bottom left
by the riverside November 05, 2023
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