Definition:
Surviving months on site, in the bush, or doing legitimately dangerous work without a single issue—then immediately injuring yourself doing something ridiculously simple as soon as you get home.
Origin:
Named after a bloke known as Hicksy who spent months working up bush without so much as a scratch—dodging all the usual chaos that comes with remote work. Within 24 hours of getting home, he tripped over in a completely safe environment, split his head open, and walked away with 20 stitches and a black eye.
Surviving months on site, in the bush, or doing legitimately dangerous work without a single issue—then immediately injuring yourself doing something ridiculously simple as soon as you get home.
Origin:
Named after a bloke known as Hicksy who spent months working up bush without so much as a scratch—dodging all the usual chaos that comes with remote work. Within 24 hours of getting home, he tripped over in a completely safe environment, split his head open, and walked away with 20 stitches and a black eye.
(Extended use) Successfully navigating the hard part of anything, only to completely stuff it at the easiest stage.
Variations:
Pulled a Hicksy — past tense
Hicksy moment — the exact second it all goes wrong
Full Hicksy — when it’s especially dumb or catastrophic
Example Sentences: “Bloke did six months remote without a scratch, got home and slipped on his own tiles—20 stitches. Proper Hicksy.”
“Careful carrying that, don’t go doing a Hicksy before knock-off.”
Alt Options (different flavours):
“Six months in the bush no dramas… 6 minutes at home—Full Hicksy.”
“Dodged danger for months, got folded by furniture. Classic Hicksy.”
“Elite in chaos, liability at home. Doing a Hicksy.”
Variations:
Pulled a Hicksy — past tense
Hicksy moment — the exact second it all goes wrong
Full Hicksy — when it’s especially dumb or catastrophic
Example Sentences: “Bloke did six months remote without a scratch, got home and slipped on his own tiles—20 stitches. Proper Hicksy.”
“Careful carrying that, don’t go doing a Hicksy before knock-off.”
Alt Options (different flavours):
“Six months in the bush no dramas… 6 minutes at home—Full Hicksy.”
“Dodged danger for months, got folded by furniture. Classic Hicksy.”
“Elite in chaos, liability at home. Doing a Hicksy.”
by BBB369 April 8, 2026
Get the pulled a hicksy mug.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.”
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 9, 2025
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