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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago

I literally have to wonder if my NC Birth Certificate (updated to reflect my Gender Affirming Care) will still be valid or if I'll get a letter saying they found an "Error" and "corrected it"

I have to worry about the Government turning my boyfriend into a homosexual by declaring me a man, how the fuck do we even get here?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 hours ago

FINALLY! something to help LOWER those gas prices!

/s

[–] [email protected] 62 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Even setting aside people's gender identity, 1.7% of the population is intersex. A law can't make that untrue.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago

not sure how to tell you this, but they can absolutely uhm… change that number

[–] [email protected] 73 points 6 hours ago (13 children)

They'd have to shoot me before I will ever deny my own womanhood. Not even with a gun to my head would I call myself a man. I lived in a closet for 18 years and it nearly killed me. It damaged me in ways I have to live with forever. I am a woman. They can say whatever the fuck they want it won't change that. I will not bow my head. If it comes to it, I'll die with my back straight, proud of who I am.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

Same sister, I'll happily die a woman if the alternative is living as a man. Gender affirming care is the reason I didn't have to make that choice, and I may have to decide again...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

You and me! I'm also gay and there's no way they'll ever step over me like that. We've suffered way too much collectively to lie down at their feet. It's time to fight back--again!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Don't worry. We got your back.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

Thank you. Truly.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago

Glad you're here. As a fellow LGBTQ+ card carrying member, we are going to keep fighting even harder. Let this presidency radicalize you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

Proud of you, but seriously, be careful? Emigrate to a country where people are treated like humans, perhaps? You might even be able to request asylum.

Just don't get yourself killed because some psycho said something stupid

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago

You have a lot of allies who feel similarly about being forced to be cruel to people we love and care about. Let's live through these terrible times with our humanity intact.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Even ignoring socially constructed gender identities, in the case of biological sexes, this is scientifically wrong. The world doesn’t fit into neat little boxes like these people think it does

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

His next trick will be to define pi as 3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Just putting this here if anyone is interested in someone actually trying to have done something similar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

In order to reduce the cost of space launches, executive order gravity to be smaller.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago

Fascists think they can force the world into their boxes through violence and cruelty. We must never stop resisting.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

I mean if he plans to kill all intersex people then there will be two sexes.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 hours ago

Just ignore the outrage machine and focus on what things you can do to help. The outrage is only to make you tired. Sue when you must, support businesses, organizations, and politicians you agree with financially, vote in every election, don't add to any problem, and ignore Trump and his minions to the best extent you can.

[–] [email protected] 108 points 10 hours ago (33 children)

Congrats to all the "both sides are the same" folks who stayed home and handed this election to Trump.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago

Same for the “establishment Democrats suck so I didn’t vote” as well. Because trump is so much better.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

we won‘t win against these politics of resentment with resentment against potential allies

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 11 hours ago (8 children)

How does this help men and women? I know how it hurts people, but who is HELPED by this?

[–] [email protected] 108 points 11 hours ago (8 children)

Fascists.

Edit: Whenever the question is "Who could possibly be helped by this?" the answer is "Fascists."

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