Americans; If Trump wins in November, what are your plans?

  • Lumelore (She/her)English
    33·
    10 months ago

    I’m a trans woman and I honestly think that I very well may end up having to hide myself in my parents attic or something.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      10 months ago

      would strongly recommend my transfolk friends move out of FL and TX, and really any red state. I know it’s hard, but these places… they’re not run by people in their right minds.

        • detectivesniffles
          4·
          10 months ago

          i want to add for any trans folks thinking about moving to canada: make sure you check provincial laws. we have a federal bill enshrining trans rights*, but some of our provinces are interested in just ignoring it using the notwithstanding clause. obviously do your own research but i would say british columbia is probably your best bet (coastal bc especially, the interior is a little… traditionalist)

          i found a resource that breaks it down better than i ever could

      • Botanicals@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        It is spreading, not many states will be safe very soon. Not to mention most people don’t have the ability to move. It’s a nice thought, tho

        • BaardFigur@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 months ago

          What do you mean? Just because you wish you were a woman doesn’t make you a woman. It’s nothing wrong with being feminine, of wishing you were a woman, but it doesn’t change hard facts, that you have XY-chromosomes, and are born with a dick.

          • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
            9·
            10 months ago

            You were most likely born without hair, doesn’t make you bald.

            Your definition of sex is stuck in the 90’s. Time to update it before you lose your grip on reality.

            And if you can’t handle modern time, there is always the Amish.

            • BaardFigur@lemmy.world
              2·
              10 months ago

              I’m not the one losing grip on reality. Even if you take hormones, or chop of your dick, your chromosomes stay the same.

              • midnight@kbin.social
                5·
                10 months ago

                So what?? Why do chromosomes matter at all? Gender ≠ sex. Anyone is allowed to identify however they want, and it literally hurts nobody.

                However, trans people do actually have brain structures that mismatch their assigned sex at birth. Also, most differences of sex are just caused by hormones, so HRT really does meaningfully change someone’s sex.
                You should also know that human biology is not so clean cut. Intersex people exist, and for example there are people born female with a Y chromosome.

                • BaardFigur@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  10 months ago

                  Unless you have more data to back it up than a single study made in Mexico, you don’t have much data to back up your point with. Studies can often have biases, so one study alone doesn’t exactly prove a lot. I’m sure there are plenty of studies concluding the opposite.

                  And why does anything matter at all? Besides the biological processes in your body being different. Being a specific sex/gender doesn’t require you to act a certain way, you can literally do anything you want. I just think it’s wrong to differentiate sex and gender.

                  By quoting wikipedia:

                  Some people maintain that the word sex should be reserved for reference to the biological aspects of being male or female or to sexual activity, and that the word gender should be used only to refer to sociocultural roles. … In some situations this distinction avoids ambiguity, as in gender research, which is clear in a way that sex research is not. The distinction can be problematic, however. Linguistically, there isn’t any real difference between gender bias and sex bias, and it may seem contrived to insist that sex is incorrect in this instance.

                  I am certainly not the only one disputing this.