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. One of various specialised automotive fluids essential to keep your vehicle's continuously variable tranny smoothly transitioning from female ("slush box" mode, she/her/hers) to male ( "stick shift", he/him/his) and back - or to anywhere in-between.
Traded at a higher price compared to most unobtanium-based motorcar accessories, automotive "gender fluid" can be distinguished from ordinary "tranny fluid" by its consistency and its tendency to transition from pink to baby blue and de-transition just as rapidly.
Traded at a higher price compared to most unobtanium-based motorcar accessories, automotive "gender fluid" can be distinguished from ordinary "tranny fluid" by its consistency and its tendency to transition from pink to baby blue and de-transition just as rapidly.
My vehicle was having issues with being addressed with the wrong pronouns by an aftermarket remote starter kit. The identity questions were addressed not by an ordinary "tranny shop" but by a specialist automotive gender identity clinic. the remote start and the power train control module were replaced with non-binary computers, able to track the correct pronouns in real time. The transmission was reprogrammed to transition from "stick-shift in low gear" (pronouns he/him) to "gender-neutral with the parking brake set" (singular they/them). at which point the vehicle could be remote-started using a clutch bypass relay and judicious use of the correct, gender-neutral pronouns. One last check to top off my vehicle's genderfluid (they/them) and I'm back on the road and back to life in the fast lane.
by bitchuck November 2, 2024
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Sarah: well—
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by Gendersmoothiex_ November 22, 2023
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