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I think this ought to include two dimensions (at least), one spectrum of gender and another of presentation. So woman to man on one, and feminine to masculine on another. The middle on the existing chart gets complicated because it wants to order butch women on the femme=woman side and feminine men on the masc=man side and they don't quite line up. If I could draw, I'd make a chart like:

(celebs just examples that came to mind, not necessarily the epitome of this structure lol)

I have the boox palma 2, if you (OP) want a very portable device I'd definitely recommend! The fingerprint reader is pretty bad though, ha. But worth it to have something phone sized and easy to pocket.

Does that matter? Each one is a real person whose life is going to be turned upside down thanks to this ruling. The fascists will justify this if the number is small ("not that many people affected, what does it matter?") or large ("this is a dangerous trend that should be regulated"). We need to support trans rights on principle.

Totally! I think we're saying the same things :)

Dude, I have read your other posts and sincerely, go log off and touch some grass. And maybe get some therapy. The internet is not going to solve your problems for you.

Who exactly is opining on the man vs bear argument that you're complaining about? I can read between the lines my guy. I can also see your comment history with a bunch of deleted comments on the women's only community discussing it.

I think you may have more in common with conservatives than you think if your response to personal dissatisfaction is to blame women for pointing out systems of oppression rather than the systems themselves. Patriarchy hurts us all.

Gerrymandering and other structural means of disproportionate representation in federal government are big parts of it

I think the progress pride flag is an acknowledgement of the unfortunate inequality present in our community specifically. LGBTQ+ has made huge strides in acceptance since the start of the gay rights movement, but most of those benefits have gone to cis and/or white members of the community, while trans people and POCs are the ones putting their bodies on the line for those rights disproportionately. I like seeing the progress flag out and about as a promise that we see those sidelined groups and we will champion their rights as hard as we champion our own. I hope there's a day when we don't need to make that promise explicitly, but I fear it may be a long time coming.

I think this is generally a good policy, but I'm going to add a tiny bit of nuance if that's alright. Language is changing and evolving constantly and nonuniformly: what might have been a slur decades ago is now a proper academic term ("queer") and what would have been lightly negative schoolyard insult is now pretty heinous in most circles (r* slur).

I think the important takeaway here is that you can't reclaim slurs for groups you are not a part of, full stop. If someone from a group requests to be referred to by something that sounds disrespectful to you (it/its pronouns is a huge one), it's not up to you to decide better for that person, you know? But you shouldn't also extrapolate that to other people of that group without confirming with individuals either.

For a quick example, when I came out to my mom she was horrified that I would use queer to describe my sexuality and my community, because she had only ever known that word as a slur. But we talked it out and she understands now that you can say queer with pride instead of hate, you know?

So I'm okay getting outpaced by folks who want to feel empowered by language that has been used to put them and their community down in the past (and I think little shits making people feel bad by saying they're reclaiming something they don't have a claim to should be told to fuck off and grow up).

This is only the beginning of a long summer. If you can get out there, do it! There are more of us than them. But remember that this isn't going to be the last occasion either. We need to be ready to stand up and say no many more times. Progress is slow, build community support now. Stay safe, be brave. ♥️

"Let my people piss" -trans Moses