I know there’s one state in the US where it’s just, “No, nothing will let you legally change the gender you’re registered as.”
You got me curious, so I looked it up. https://transgenderlawcenter.org/resources/id/state-by-state-overview-changing-gender-markers-on-birth-certificates
The answer is: Tennessee.
Sounds like he or his doctor could be on the hook for fraud…and yet what should the legal standard be for determining gender identity?
I thought each person was supposed to be able to decide for themselves which gender they wish to identify as.
If that is the case, anyone can decide they’re any gender for any reason even if that reason is suspect. Therefore, there is (or should be) a difference between what people hold as a standard for determining gender, and what the law does.
Sounds like he or his doctor could be on the hook for fraud…and yet what should the legal standard be for determining gender identity?
Just… prosecute him for fraud and perjury. We don’t need to bring the standards up to where they were previously. We shouldn’t have to jump through hoops in order to be seen under the law and by our peers as ourselves.
Edit: This is more about the strange biases in auto insurance (though there’s good rationale), but throwing us under the bus (and giving ammunition to bigots) is not a good way of going about it.
Generally I think prosecuting him for fraud is what would or will happen. However, there is a point to be made regarding making legal gender status less arbitrary, especially if metrics or statistics businesses use depend on data relevant to gender being accurate.
Ok, I don’t want to turn this into a debate, not in this thread.
But I have to ask: What do you mean by, “making legal gender status less arbitrary?”
I’m not sure how to redefine that. If gender status is fluid or arbitrary, that doesn’t necessarily make it easy to arbitrate cases of fraud or deceit regarding what people report their gender to be. I’m not saying there need to be more hoops. I don’t even know what hoops there are. I guess I’m saying there is a valid argument to have hoops and for them to be well-defined.
Often there doesn’t even need to be concrete legislation (regarding said hoops) where caselaw in the courts establish a precedent for what they consider fraud and what they don’t. So there’s also a legal argument against the need for additional hoops.
I really was making no judgment about whether gender was too easy or hard to change.
Sounds like he or his doctor could be on the hook for fraud…and yet what should the legal standard be for determining gender identity?
Just… prosecute him for fraud and perjury. We don’t need to bring the standards up to where they were previously. We shouldn’t have to jump through hoops in order to be seen under the law and by our peers as ourselves.
Edit: This is more about the strange biases in auto insurance (though there’s good rationale), but throwing us under the bus (and giving ammunition to bigots) is not a good way of going about it.
Generally I think prosecuting him for fraud is what would or will happen. However, there is a point to be made regarding making legal gender status less arbitrary, especially if metrics or statistics businesses use depend on data relevant to gender being accurate.
Maybe I am wrong and acted rashly, but it seemed like you guys were making fun of me for being Christian and I didn’t like it and I got angry last night.
No one here is or ever has made fun of you for [being] a Christian
I’m not sure that’s true. I can say with some certainty that the Religion Thread has oftentimes become a farce with how disrespectful some can be toward religion (or faith) in general, or Christianity specifically.
Did you know about this guy?
Didn’t seem like you were talking about him.
It seemed that way to me. JEDIT: That is, it seemed to have a double-meaning that in part included the OT user Jeebus. I don’t think they meant to make fun of you specifically though.
Lol.
I don’t think we’re supposed to laugh at that.
https://www.autoblog.com/amp/2018/07/27/man-changes-birth-certificate-gender-for-car-insurance/
I have no words to describe how appalled I am.
Well, according to insurance companies, it is likely that he will now have fewer accidents.
But will his employer now pay him less?
If they get too big they can become a real nuisance. I’d at least do a warm compress for a little while.
I had a stye several years ago, and a hot compress helped. I didn’t use a warm compress; I microwaved a wet washcloth until it was just slighty less than unbearable against my skin. I used a dry washcloth to hold the wet one.
The stye went away after a few days after I started regularly doing that.
I don’t know, watching porn when I want a story isn’t really for me, especially underage porn.
Why should I take posts like this seriously?
You don’t though.
I don’t have time to make serious posts.
we shouldn’t consider, what is going to offend people’s sensibilities when we try to tell a compelling story.
I quite strongly disagree. Gratuitousness regarding profanity, sexual promiscuity, or nudity doesn’t add anything to the story. Often it detracts from focus on plot.
And now I’m ash
Sock confirmed.
Time goes by too slowly! It pisses me off.
Sorry, no, it goes by too fast.
I feel like the older I get the faster time seems to pass.
But it’s not poison…?
The article I posted said there wasn’t lead poisoning.
That’s not what it said. It said the term “poisoned” inaccurately characterized the reality. It did admit that lead is a powerful neurotoxicant, that no amount of lead is healthy, and that lead in the water of certain homes was ridiculously high. But then it went on to say that reports regarding the CDC’s “reference level” of lead made people assume said reference level was a level beyond which people are poisoned and thus incur irreversible brain damage, which is grossly inaccurate; and that the majority of people in Flint didn’t have very high lead levels at all—especially compared to the whole country 20, 40, or 60 years ago.
It didn’t say there wasn’t poisoning; it said the information given needed to be more informative about the actual facts and what they really mean because the event wasn’t as bad as it sounded.
…I still don’t understand what a reference level is.
Why ruin the soda by removing the caffeine and adding the gin?
Caffeine gives me anxiety, gin reduces my anxiety. Seems like a win win to me. Not everybody can just sleep 15 hours a day naturally.
Spending 15 hours per day sleeping sounds highly energy inefficient to me.
Don’t you have backups?
I do, but they are offsite and take some time to download (or else physically retrieve). So I’m recovering what I can from the old hard drive. Either way, it’s a pain and an annoyance.
LOL. That Season 2 trailer is laughably terrible. Now my anti-desire to watch Discovery is petrified.
That was terrible. Is that the usual tone of that series? Felt like it was trying to be The Orville (which I’m not crazy about anyways).
No. The entire first season they were trying to be edgy. It was overly dark and serious.
It really does feel like they’re trying to ape The Orville now.
They’re listening to the fans! (who said The Orville is like Star Trek)
Too little too late is what I say. They should have listened to fans (of Prime Universe Star Trek) to begin with.
I have no input about Sussex anyway.
One of my hard drives is malfunctioning, so while it still works (knock on wood) I’m copying the entire contents to a new drive. It’s really annoying because the bad drive has the majority of my digital media on it.
Wearing a MAGA hat can mean a lot of things, some of them being “I’m a racist” and “I’m a xenophobe” and “I’m a misogynist.” Personally I wouldn’t wear something that open to interpretation.
Then again I wouldn’t wear an Obama shirt in public either. I’m not looking for attention.
I had an extended family member who, after the 2008 election, had a “Palin 2012” sticker on her car.
This discussion’s in danger of growing stale. I’m taking it to strange, new places.
“Tr8p.”
Nope. Laryngeal prominence.
Has the ok hand sign:
become a symbol of the KKK?
It is and it isn’t.
https://lifehacker.com/is-this-an-innocent-ok-sign-or-a-white-power-symbol-1825575794
Some people think it is, and some people do use it to mean that; but many who use it aren’t alt-right and don’t mean it to mean that. I think it’s still up in the air whether it’s associated with that or not. Some people are starting to associate it, but it’s not really caught on. So yes and no.
JEDIT: Your other posts regarding men actually feeling trapped is nonsense btw. But I’ll move on.
I said people have certain feelings, and they should be allowed to have them but not give them license to be jerks. Having feelings is not nonsense, nor is it always deliberate.
I don’t need to justify myself to you.
So don’t.
Shut up then. Please.
Fine.
Trap is a derogatory term. Don’t use it.
Do you agree?
I agree with the consensus. If they do, then it is. If they do not, then it is not. GLAAD is not the consensus here.
I already don’t use the word either way anyway.
I don’t need to justify myself to you.
So don’t.
Shut up then. Please.