https://apnews.com/article/trump-transgender-nonbinary-passports-a8abef038a19ffd233d34c88499cef11
This seems like such an inconsequential policy idk why people are fighting about it.
It's literally just legalese. What effect does it have on the real world?
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@light Fighting back against people that want to do harm is important. Everything you allow is a new standard set, a basis for more drastic action.
Nazis didn't put jewish people into concentration camps first, the first step was marking them. I expect similar here.
@admitsWrongIfProven How is marking official documents by the biological sex of their bearers going to lead to putting them in concentration camps?
Same way as marking Jews with the star of David lead to putting them in concentration camps? 🤔
Don't play the "it's just bureaucracy" game with those who do not intend to play by the rules I suppose — people are having their doubts and I can't say these are completely ungrounded.
I'd like to elaborate a little. To me protesting early also seemed stupid because first steps are usually quite innocent, but these things always happen gradually and when it turns into something obviously wrong, it's usually too late to protest because other restrictive laws are already in effect.
I've seen this happen in Russia: no, Internet censorship won't be used for anything political — it's just to take down drug dealer sites and of course underage pornography (people like this shit universally and play along with it)… and a decade later I can't use Gemini without VPN anymore — because suspiciosly looking (to them) TLS connections to all major international hosting providers are filtered.
Foreign agent status is not the loss of rights just a simple bureaucratic procedure, so that people know who they are dealing with — and now even their property rights are severely limited, and local buisnesses can't buy advertisement from them, so now they can only have foreign sponsorship.
And no of course having to notify authorities about your meetings is not permission to protest — it's just to uphold law and order, and then you are only allowed to protest in some suburbs instead of city centre where your protest would be visible.
So in this case on the surface — yes, it's just an ID (although why do they need different passports), but knowing that Trump's general direction is a more authoritarian one, who knows what might happen later? What if at some point, e.g. in case of a serious economic downturn, he claims: "These people are registered enemies of the state — they are responsible for all your woes, get them!"— what is there to prevent it from happening? And for you it would be too late — you already have a "special" government document.
He's alredy looking for a way to have a legal status of "internal enemy" — his statements about Antifa, so the turn of event when he would need some group of people to pin problems on, seems very likely to me.
Also his use of national guard — right now it's something relatively innocent: it's to reinforce ICE and people who don't like migrants do not see it as a problem, but to me it already looks like he's testing waters in preperation for more serious mass-protests.
@m0xEE @admitsWrongIfProven But it's not a marker of whether you are trans. It just means that your biological sex is what's put on official documents, not "gender identity".
I suppose if you look like a woman or a man but your passport says that you're a man or a woman respectively, then that makes you visible and easy to single out. Is that what you meant?
Still. Doesn't seem the same as marking them with a pink triangle.
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>correct others on matters where the biology does not matter
Meaning what?