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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 126 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Since there is insufficient cell differentiation at conception to produce any reproductive cells, does that mean that according to the white house, all people are legally non-binary now?

[–] elfpie 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A little more seriously, we in fact start as non-binary instead of as female as it's usually said. How nobody said that before?

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 month ago

Big Gender Binary is suppressing the narrative so that people don't realise they used to be agender.

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 106 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

YOU KNOW WHO I WORRY ABOUT COMING INTO WOMEN'S BATHROOMS, CONSERVATIVES?

CIS MEN.

I HAVE LITERALLY NEVER HAD A TRANS WOMAN MAKE ME FEEL UNSAFE IN THERE. BUT I HAVE HAD CIS MEN FOLLOW ME IN AND ATTEMPT ASSAULT.

MEN DON'T NEED TO GO THROUGH THE CONVOLUTED STEPS OF TRANSITIONING TO GAIN ACCESS TO WOMEN'S BATHROOMS, YOU FUCKING IDIOTS

MAYBE ADDRESS THAT FIRST? NO???

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

They believe that anyone can claim they're a woman now and that's it. And once it's done they can just walk into women's bathrooms. They're just telling on themselves, projecting on trans people. They're just sex obsessed freaks, all of them.

[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know. I was raised in a fundie church. I did not escape unscathed. They're fucked up perverts.

[–] gingernate@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

I grew up in a fundie church as well. No one escapes unscathed. Glad you got out. I hope you're able to heal. Fuck Bill Gothard!

[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

We just had a Nazi change her legal status to woman probably to fuck with the system and try to get into a women's prison. Now she will probably be send to a male prison and referred to as a woman.

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 month ago

I've said that if I was wealthy, I would force legislation that was trans friendly by (as a cis woman) going into women's bathrooms in Congress, standing on toilets, and staring at women.

Women's bathrooms don't have urinals! There's no reason for anyone to be afraid of anyone seeing anything in there, unless they stand on toilets, and Im fully of the opinion that the gender of the person doing that has nothing to do with how creepy it is!!

Maybe if you're actually worried, all bathrooms should be, I dunno, gender neutral with full doors that close all the way? For maximum safety?

And I believe nothing can get that point across quite like demonstrating that I, as an almost middle aged, fat woman who looks like I could safely run for a Rwpublican seat, standing on toilets and staring at people.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[–] GrilledCheese@lemmy.blahaj.zone 66 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So we’re all female. Neat!

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 13 points 1 month ago

I've always wondered what it's like.

Turns out, (according to the US government) I was experiencing it all along.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, embryos don't produce eggs.

[–] GrilledCheese@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Not with that attitude they don’t! 🙃

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What about people who produce neither?

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They usually handwave and claim "they don't count" because they can't reproduce, assuming that somehow means they can be ignored.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 17 points 1 month ago

i don't think embryos produce any reproductive cells right away so that handwave would have to cover... everyone

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I especially like definitions that don't even take menopause into account

It's like "sorry, but you're only a real female post puberty and pre menopause" like old grannies aren't women 💀

[–] yozul 2 points 1 month ago
[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 32 points 1 month ago

Embryos can't produce gametes. Everyone is agender now.

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 31 points 1 month ago

Maybe I'm a late bloomer but I started producing reproduce cells long after conception

[–] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 31 points 1 month ago

Republicans showing once again their cognitive prowess.

[–] arisunz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

when the fascists accidentally forcefem all of america:

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

*neuter

Embryos don't produce gametes of any type.

[–] arisunz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Let me have this damn

[–] yozul 18 points 1 month ago

I guess the nicest thing I could say about this is that I'm glad that if they're going to be evil, at least they're bad at it.

[–] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I would think "if you have a Y chromosome, you're male" would be a better definition to fit what they're trying to do

[–] jonsnothere 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There's like a not insignificant 1% of people who are intersex where looking at chromosomes can get tricky.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 15 points 1 month ago

As if the right would care.

[–] AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yea it's not perfect, but it's somewhat functional. Compared to what they decided to go with.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

You can be XY and present as female. There's a handy little chart in this article to give you an overview of some of the more common things that happen between being an XX woman and being an XY man.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 6 points 1 month ago

Surely there are also people who can produce both/neither reproductive cells. Definitely neither, at least.

[–] kipo@lemm.ee 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Chromosomes are almost never tested at birth, and so 99% of people walking around don’t actually know what chromosomes they have. Enforcing any law based on chromosomes for purposes like this would be nearly impossible.

[–] yozul 3 points 1 month ago

Nobody's checking the size of sex gametes that embryos are producing at conception, either. Didn't stop them from saying that.

What, are they going to start having people provide sperm or eggs at the DMV so that they can use a set of tiny calipers to figure out how to fill out the gender on your license?

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the thing is that there is no good hard definition of sexes, the best you can do is just go "they fill the general role of male" but guess what! that includes trans people :))

[–] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 13 points 1 month ago

Why didn't they say egg and sperm lol

"On" means a circuit belonging, at time of observation, to the larger number.

"Off" means a circuit belonging, at time of observations, to the nothing number.

These people are on a hilariously dumb level of evil. They can't be for real with this.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But at conception aren’t all fetuses female? Isn’t it a few weeks in or more that some become male? That’s at least partly why females have clitorises and males have nipples…

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fetuses don't exist yet at conception. We're all officially enbies now.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Oh yeah you’re right

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

But later produces the small cell.

[–] herorobb 3 points 1 month ago

Someone has to do something. A lot of someones. All at the same time. All across the world. We have to do something about this. It's too far. We cannot let things go on like this. This will not stand.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Since they insist on things not changing, they should redefine age as the number of years you had been alive for right after birth

Everyone would be protected from any criminal charges because of their age

Wait, i forgot i wasnt talking about a civilized country with reasonable laws