neidu4@piefed.social to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoWhy do we need legal genders at all?message-squaremessage-square181linkfedilinkarrow-up1286arrow-down123file-text
arrow-up1263arrow-down1message-squareWhy do we need legal genders at all?neidu4@piefed.social to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square181linkfedilinkfile-text
I was originally going to ask how many legal genders there should be, but I fail to see a compelling argument against 0.
minus-squarevelma@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down3·1 day agoCounterpoint to 2 - femme presenting people are often discriminated against whether gender is known or not. Orientation isn’t quite as visible.
minus-squaremushroommunk@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 day agoAlthough I think I lean to the it shouldn’t be tracked the way it currently is, to further your point we do track other visual things by which people are discriminated against such as race.
minus-squarejumping redditor [they/them]@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down2·edit-21 day agopeople are discriminated based on religion fairly often too, but the feds don’t need to know what church you do or don’t go to
Counterpoint to 2 - femme presenting people are often discriminated against whether gender is known or not. Orientation isn’t quite as visible.
Although I think I lean to the it shouldn’t be tracked the way it currently is, to further your point we do track other visual things by which people are discriminated against such as race.
people are discriminated based on religion fairly often too, but the feds don’t need to know what church you do or don’t go to