In a past life, a super transphobic coworker asked me out a few times. He’d often go on rants about how women’s spaces must be protected and whatnot. He never realized I was trans.

It’s moments like that where I wish I could just tell him “hey I’m trans and you need to learn that we’re not sexual predators like Fox News likes to claim”, but staying quiet is an issue of personal safety. Trans visibility is a double edged sword that must be wielded delicately.

I don’t want to wait outside a stall to take a piss.

You would not survive womanhood

People really do need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century

And every person who gives Rowling money or watches her show outside the high seas is directly complicit

We fart too 💨

Yes, and the language for that is “biological sex.” If you go to the doctor, they will ask you for your biological sex.

“Biological sex” is poor language because it doesn’t actually provide any useful information. It says nothing about my hormone levels, it says nothing about my fat distribution, it says nothing about my (in)ability to have kids, it says nothing about my dose requirements, it says nothing about my genitals, it says nothing about my medical history, it says nothing about my BMI, it masks certain cancer risks, it has never actually achieved anything useful at the doctor’s office. All it does is placate transphobes and cause bureaucratic headaches.

If a medical form needs to know if I can get pregnant, the correct language is “are you able to get pregnant”. It’s not transphobic to ask that in a medical context, if anything it’s expected. It is transphobic to assume a trans person can’t answer that truthfully. Besides, the question also covers cis women who can’t get pregnant and trans men who can.

Doctors don’t immediately get amnesia when something gets defunded … But claiming that doctors suddenly don’t know what to do is a hyperbole that misses the actual issue.

Yes, they literally do seemingly get amnesia. One of the main complaints we have about doctors is that they dismiss every concern by blaming it on us being trans. I’ve heard it described as “trans broken leg syndrome”. It’s a similar issue to what cis women face, almost like it’s a systematic issue that affects anyone who isn’t a cis man.

That should all be taken into account, of course, but pretending that “biological sex” is useless in medical contexts is an ignorant take.

This is contradictory. Trans people already face discrimination and confusion from doctors on the norm. Eg: I’ve even had issues with my ophthalmologist, as if being trans has any effect whatsoever on my eyes. A single binary “biological sex” marker erases all the nuance involved and strips us of the language needed to properly convey it.

And besides, if “biological sex” is such a bogus concept, then what do we even contrast “gender” with in the first place?

Individual physical characteristics. Call it “Sex” and leave it open ended for all I care. It’s the enforcement of a strict binary, removal of agency, and purposeful ignorance of modern science that I take issue with - all while hiding under the term “biological”. It is for those reasons that it is often used as a dogwhistle.

Finally, your persistent sealioning only contributes to the problem that no one ever fucking listens to trans people. We are a tiny and very vulnerable minority who are constantly being drowned out in a sea of cis voices that think they know the trans experience better than us (eg: when was the last time you saw NYT quote a trans person?) You have easily typed out more than any trans person in the conversation but have seemingly learned absolutely nothing from it.

That isn’t even a reliable indicator, and if it comes up, it is a discussion between the patient and the doctor and no one else. We have the language to be specific. Besides, doctors don’t even know what to do with trans people regardless of gender or surgeries because all medical research on the topic has been blocked, erased, or burned by knuckledraggers

(MTF) When I go to doctors I have to explain to them that if they run my bloodwork as Male, every single damn metric on it is going to be flashing bright red. When it’s run as Female, I can get actual data out of it. Also guess who you go to if you have titty problems.

Biological sex is a dogwhistle made digestible to appease the apathetic moderate

Edit: and this entire thread is proof of that 🍿

The first example given is literally called Black Lightning, but yes, the Naruto universe heads the Anime list

My partner and I went to city hall, signed a few papers, and called it a day. It’s not for a lack of people in our lives either, we both have huuuuuuuuuuuge overlapping social circles.

I can see how it’s possible to have so many people and make a huge thing of it, I just don’t see why. The wedding industry is particularly scammy on top of it

Americans paying attention

Citizens and residents registered with Malta’s online identity system can apply to get access to ChatGPT Plus

What’s the benefit because that just sounds like a shit sandwich

I really want Mamdani to talk to him about universal healthcare next

If you’re serious about this you should visit for yourself, ideally in the middle of winter. You definitely won’t want to keep your windows open in the middle of winter. Yes it’s cold. This winter was particularly long for some reason, Toronto is only just getting out of winter and towns further north still have ice.

It’ll be like Mom Corp’s killbots

I used to describe Alberta as Texas with snow, but in reality it’s Texas with a working power grid

Anyone who has two braincells and reads the news is aware the US is crashing like General Grievous’s ship on Coruscant

Yep she’s the prime example of one

Yeah that checks out

When they put this up for a vote and get 20% support, surely they’ll all go away right?

…right?

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