rotten

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[–] rotten@lemm.ee -3 points 4 days ago (19 children)

We're talking about both. Gender was traditionally identical to sex and this issue didn't come up much till relatively recently. Outliers, like people born with both sets of organs, were just that. To be consistent with this philosophy, race must also now be done as "whoever identifies as such". After all, it's just as much of a societal construct.

[–] rotten@lemm.ee -1 points 4 days ago (21 children)

Yea, but sex isn't. And the way it's done now is that gender is invoked as identical to sex when it's beneficial and rebuked when it's not.

[–] rotten@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (23 children)

Yea, you can put down whatever you want on government forms. That's no mystery. Whether people at large accept you as that what you claim is on them. The government isn't an arbiter of reality any more than you are.

[–] rotten@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (25 children)

And so what if they do? Nobody is throwing you in jail for selecting the "wrong" box. And if there is some special program you're defrauding.. well.. treating people differently on this in the law isn't part of my philosophy.

[–] rotten@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (27 children)

But this is a biological thing. It's a medical condition. It's not your gender if you were born with both sets of organs. The point of equality was to get rid of laws being selectively applied. By your philosophy, race also works similarly. Someone who is latino is whoever says they're latino.

[–] rotten@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago (12 children)

No tariffs have been set but we're going to just assume they'll be put on items we can't even make. 100% tariffs on everything, trade isn't something you strategically do.

[–] rotten@lemm.ee -2 points 4 days ago (30 children)

It's an edge case. Does a government form determine reality? They can put down one, both, none.

[–] rotten@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago (34 children)

A hermaphrodite. What is any other genetic condition?

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