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I recommend everyone visit the DMV as soon as possible to change their license. It's an order from the commander in chief.
Now that I think of it: every DMV should be only be able to issue licenses with a female designation. Facts and law suites don't care about your feelings, snow flakes.
Since they insist on things not changing, they should redefine age as the number of years you had been alive for right after birth
Everyone would be protected from any criminal charges because of their age
Wait, i forgot i wasnt talking about a civilized country with reasonable laws
Someone has to do something. A lot of someones. All at the same time. All across the world. We have to do something about this. It's too far. We cannot let things go on like this. This will not stand.
YOU KNOW WHO I WORRY ABOUT COMING INTO WOMEN'S BATHROOMS, CONSERVATIVES?
CIS MEN.
I HAVE LITERALLY NEVER HAD A TRANS WOMAN MAKE ME FEEL UNSAFE IN THERE. BUT I HAVE HAD CIS MEN FOLLOW ME IN AND ATTEMPT ASSAULT.
MEN DON'T NEED TO GO THROUGH THE CONVOLUTED STEPS OF TRANSITIONING TO GAIN ACCESS TO WOMEN'S BATHROOMS, YOU FUCKING IDIOTS
MAYBE ADDRESS THAT FIRST? NO???
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
They believe that anyone can claim they're a woman now and that's it. And once it's done they can just walk into women's bathrooms. They're just telling on themselves, projecting on trans people. They're just sex obsessed freaks, all of them.
I've said that if I was wealthy, I would force legislation that was trans friendly by (as a cis woman) going into women's bathrooms in Congress, standing on toilets, and staring at women.
Women's bathrooms don't have urinals! There's no reason for anyone to be afraid of anyone seeing anything in there, unless they stand on toilets, and Im fully of the opinion that the gender of the person doing that has nothing to do with how creepy it is!!
Maybe if you're actually worried, all bathrooms should be, I dunno, gender neutral with full doors that close all the way? For maximum safety?
And I believe nothing can get that point across quite like demonstrating that I, as an almost middle aged, fat woman who looks like I could safely run for a Rwpublican seat, standing on toilets and staring at people.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Maybe if you're actually worried, all bathrooms should be, I dunno, gender neutral with full doors that close all the way? For maximum safety?
They made a bathroom at my university that’s gender neutral with stalls that are fully ceiling to floor with no gaps in the door.
And this is how it should be everywhere!
wait ... so if I just walk through the door I'm suddenly in the women's bathroom? no force field?
I'm no biologist, but I'm pretty sure nobody produces gametes at conception. If you want to be pedantic, oocytes form before birth, but actual sperm and eggs don't show up till puberty (feel free to correct me).
Now, I would LOVE if we don't assign gender till puberty, but I still don't like the method.
“You know what we mean!”
So we’re back to gender being a social construct then.
when the fascists accidentally forcefem all of america:
The culture war is refuelled, so we can be distracted from the grand scale theft by the oligarchs.
This is either AI slop. Ignorant because they think babies are made by god and immediately have genitals. Deliberately as anti science as possible to muddy things further.
Probably all 3.
Yup. At conception, I'm prettybsure there's really fuck all going on - plus, how's it getting measured? Most people aren't that sure of their date of conception!
So then what? We look at the organs at birth? (Gender=sex)
Maybe I'm a late bloomer but I started producing reproduce cells long after conception
Maybe you didn't have a gender until you started producing them? Which bathroom did you use?
Is... is that the actual wording?
Holy shit. Surely those who drafted this realize the importance of wording in legal documents. What an egregious error.
Fuck you I'm a woman owned business now and also my DMV can't issue liscences designated male without proof of.... exogenesis? Parthogenisis? Some kind of nobel winning genesis?
Um. I am a trans woman and this deeply affects me as well. I believe you misread my intention here. What I said was far from a compliment.
ah shit. Bad wording. I'm sorry I didn't mean for it to come off that way, just upset and didn't mean to minimize. I can't do much, but I can be a pain in the ass at the DMV tomorrow and force a case. Not much blowback on someone like me.
Ah, it's all good :) I understand your meaning now.
thanks. sorry. I am upset an amount beyond the right I have, but also have the responsibility, to be.
HA, good one!
Why would you think that? These lines were written by fascists to appeal to morons. Proper wording only matters for those of us that live in reality.
You’re giving them more credit than they’ve shown.
Republicans showing once again their cognitive prowess.
For fucks sake.
For fucks sake.
Since there is insufficient cell differentiation at conception to produce any reproductive cells, does that mean that according to the white house, all people are legally non-binary now?
A little more seriously, we in fact start as non-binary instead of as female as it's usually said. How nobody said that before?
Female gametes are expressed first, so we've all been forced to be women
Who would have thought that Trump would be the first female president of the United States
Poggers
So we’re all female. Neat!
I've always wondered what it's like.
Turns out, (according to the US government) I was experiencing it all along.
I wish at least I was female
It’s the gamete crowd, but adapted for the crowd that can’t spell “gamete”.
What about people who produce neither?
They usually handwave and claim "they don't count" because they can't reproduce, assuming that somehow means they can be ignored.
i don't think embryos produce any reproductive cells right away so that handwave would have to cover... everyone