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
Get the Genderfluid Mike Huckabee Testmug. a fucking dumbass. You know that kind of guy that shows up and burns shit down, literally, yeah that’s a mike shrubb.
by rrrrehskfbs April 24, 2020
Get the mike shrubbmug. "Why did he suddenly run off when I asked him that question, without warning or explanation"?
"Oh, he's just doing a mike,"
"Oh, he's just doing a mike,"
by Victimofmagic June 21, 2025
Get the Doing a Mikemug. Mike is the one with a huge dick and a funny guy, is often on the look for money. He is sometimes quiet but when he's with people he likes he is hilarious.
by Realnigga124 February 25, 2017
Get the Mikemug. Guitar player for the kick-ass band Pearl Jam and an overall awesome man. Has had fancy hairstyles in the past, and likes to wear interesting pants/shoe combinations.
by kansassharp November 29, 2016
Get the Mike McCreadymug. Ugly, hideous black haired boy that usually has a little penis. loves talking to girls for 3 days then asking them out.
by german horse cock September 24, 2017
Get the mikemug. In Disney's Monster Inc. one of the main characters, Mike Wazowski, gets to be on the cover of a magazine and a commercial and both time his face is covered up by a barcode and a logo. Both times his friends and family are worried he might take it hard but he's just excited to be there. Not even phased.
Mike Wazowski Vibe = Just happy to be here, happy to be a part of it.
Mike Wazowski Vibe = Just happy to be here, happy to be a part of it.
She/he/they went on a trip and things didnt pan out the way they thought. Regardless they we just stoked to be there. They had big Mike Wazowski Vibes.
by Wooshi January 19, 2022
Get the mike wazowski vibemug.