Apply for asylum in the UK or elsewhere.
theres literally no federal law allowing a third gender option.
hes just a fucking idiot talking about something that isnt happening for a cult crowd.
I would prefer it if gender was just left out of official documents and policies, and rules would just focus on medical situations. This would leave space for everyone to be who they are while still allowing for specific care for people who menstruate, get pregnant, have a prostate etc.
We don’t have separate rules or bathrooms for people who wear glasses or are redheads, but somehow this archaic binary distinction is so ingrained in our society that people feel the need to categorize them in almost every domain of our lives.
I say this as a cis man so if my opinion sounds stupid I am willing to learn. I do have some close trans friends and what I feel is that they just want to be allowed to be themselves. Like, their search and discovery of their identity is of course super important to them, but at the same time they are just people. I discuss them now because of the topic, but in my head they are no different from any other person I know. Just let people be themselves and don’t force boxes where they aren’t needed.
just focus on medical situations
Well, there is this “transgender lunacy”… bet he wants to “cure” people.
Let’s remember some reasons used in the past to cure people:
Also, I looked up that list you posted, as some of the entries seemed very strange to me, even for the time.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/reasons-admission-insane-asylum-1800s/
In general, this document might be more accurately described as “a list of some reasons why people were believed to have eventually developed illnesses that led to their being admitted to the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane” and not a list of “symptoms” or “reasons” why people were admitted to that hospital.
It’s an extremely funny list, but shows more that psychoanalysis in that time was pretty stupid, not that people were being put in an asylum for showing these behaviors.
I don’t mean focus on medical situations as a wildcard to just practice any sort of (pseudo) medicine on people. It’s about rights being given, not taken away.
The reason I mentioned this, is that the erasure of gender from official status might have as a side effect that rights related to gender (for example pregnancy leave) have to be defined in a way that doesn’t link it to gender. By no means do I want some sort of medical laws or such that force things upon people, it’s more about rights linked to a person’s medical conditions.
In that sense, I see having a penis, or a uterus, or something else as just one of the medical characteristics of a person, just as for example their blood sugar, eyesight or mental state. Rights and care should be based on that, and not on a F/M on an official document.
India federally recognizes more than two genders.
Probably the most progressive destination in terms of gender recognition TBH
More progressive than Nordic countries or Israel?
Please teach me.
thats ok Trump. Our official Policy is you are a monster and we will do anything in power to stop you. We are all going to fight you every step of the way.
I invite y’all to Germany. We have legally recognised three genders plus changing your name and gender entry has just become easier (although politicians of the most likely coming up government said they want to reverse the latter, though that party is not exactly known for keeping their word).
lets just wait and see that germany doesnt elect the nazis first. :(
Currently we aren’t at a point, where the fascists(AfD) gonna form a coalition. Its very likely that the conservatives(CDU) will be the leading party. However, they still have to get a majority so they will have to form a coalition with either the populist authoritarian right(BSW), the green party or the social democrats(SPD). The liberals(FDP) and the left may not pass the 5% hurdle and therefore won’t have any influence on the politics. FDP, SPD, and the green party are the currently governing Partys(even tho the FDP blasted the coalition and doesn’t do anything anymore) Currently it may be possible that CDU and SPD(which have ruled a lot of times before) are able to form a coalition by themselves, although it currently isn’t very likely that this is possible. So they need a third party to coalate with. This will be either the AfD (they currently aren’t a a point where they will work together), the greens or BSW. The chancellor candidate for the CDU announced that he doesn’t want to coalate with those, so its probably going to be CDU, SPD and BSW. In theory the SPD should be able to hold back the CDU from destroying alle progressive work that has been done in the past 4 years, but sadly they have a history of betraying everyone to be able to govern for 4 more years.
So in short, we will likely have a right conservative government, but we won’t have fascists(yet). It will devinetively get worse the next 4 years.
I don’t trust Merz to honour his word to not coalate with the AFD if it gets him into power. Their election program is pretty much the same as the AFD and they’re just pretending for people who are not looking into it that they’re not the same
Na. The Nazis most probably will be strongest opposition party, but the government will be populist.
Would love to get out of the US with my partner but unfortunately as Americans nobody wants us
The world wants teachers, doctors, and other specialists, but it can be very difficult to leave without money or higher education. You could look into masters and PHD programs internationally and try to leave via study to employment.
Do they still have the law where names must relate to the gender though?
Yeah, I think (but am not 100% sure) this still applies, although you only need one gender related name, all other names are free for you to choose. And if you have the diverse gender designation you obviously probably don’t have to choose a gender related option.
Anyways, the fascists are very close to get the majority vote here so maybe not the best idea to come to Germany either :(
I’m not sure, tbh. I think that only applies to baby names, but I’ll be sure and check later when I’m home
Thank you!
So I looked it up and I have to update my statement before.
First, one can also just have their gender entry outright deleted.
Secondly, naming conventions are the same as for baby names:
Generally, first names have to correspond to the new gender entry:
- Who chooses the male gender can use a name or names that are purely male ore both male and female.
- Who chooses the female gender can use a name or names that are purely female or both female and male.
- And who chooses the gender „diverse“or to delete their gender entry has free choice among male and female names
- For all genders, the chosen names have to be actual first names.
(Source translation by me because I was too stupid to realize there’s an English version)
Unfortunately, despite the actual progress this law certainly demonstrates, it also shows there’s still both a binary way to think about gender and certain expectations linked to gender well seated in the minds of lawmakers. Nonetheless, it’s a lot better than what we had before.
Is the UK actually the safest place to be trans, because jesus fucking christ.
canada rn but even that depends on the province
Well they’re greenish
Better than Russia, worse than Spain… kind of sad to see the EU average so low.
No, it’s not.
Thank goodness. I haven’t done research into trans rights in many countries yet, so I was sincerely afraid that the UK might be as good as it gets 😰
The UK doesn’t recognise more than two genders either so applying for assylum in the UK if somebody isn’t a man or woman won’t make any difference to them being recognised.
It is called TERF island for a reason.
Germany does recognise this, however we won’t give you guys Asyl, since that would mean that the USA is absolutely fucked and we can’t admit that(sadly).
Germany is also moving further right so I am mentally preparing to flee or fight when shit hits the fan
First they came for the trans folks…
No, they didn’t. The fact is that they are coming after trans folk now, but they were definitely not the first on the list, just the latest.
It is clear that enough Americans are OK with the fascist track we are on. Otherwise Trump would have been defeated in a landslide.
Stay safe out there, and keep those you care about safe. This ain’t gonna be pretty.
The US population is just struggling too much to care, that’s part of the playbook: keep people poor and the rich rich, so that the economy will be the main driver of votes, and of course the sitting party is always to blame for the bad (or perceived bad) economy, so people vote for the other party no matter what. The same thing is brewing in east germany with AfD stemming basically from the same economic problems, and you’d think they know a thing or two about fascism there.
As horrifying as it is, wars are good for the economy because governments are printing money like they’re no tomorrow to build weapons and ammunition, it creates tons of jobs. It’ll come at the cost of a depression when tomorrow finally comes, but that’ll be the next party’s problem, and people on average can’t see much further than the tip of their nose. Then they’ll vote the fascists back in to “fix” the economy again, just in time for the economy to start turning and take credit from the previous administration’s policies. People don’t want progress because progress involves compromises while they’re hurting right now, they don’t want to compromise for the right thing.
Nobody would care about trans people, immigrants, green energy, electric cars, etc if the lower middle class was wealthy. People care because of the perception it’s taking away things from them in a time of need where they can’t afford it. For trans people that’s DEI being perceived as favoring against them, for green energy that’s going the more expensive route they can’t afford/it’s cheaper to set their trucks to run coal and not have to put AdBlue in or replace a clogged up DPF. They want regulations gone not because they don’t care about the environment, but because they hurting right now financially and it’s costing them right now.
it’s a reference to a poem about the rise of the nazi party in the 1930s
I am aware. I am saying we are further down the “Then they came for…” part of the poem.
“I will end the war in Ukraine. I will stop the chaos in the Middle East, and I will prevent, I promise, World War III.”
Oh god he’s gonna start World War III.
I do not recognize his authority in this matter. I will continue to exist. He might as well declare pi=3.
people can barely live due to low wages
“tHeRe wILL oFFicIALy bE tWO gENdeRS!” -🤡
What a fucking joke
And people eat it up. It’s sick how many people would rather focus on bringing others down than pull themselves out of despair, let alone anyone else.
