neidu4@piefed.social to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agoWhy do we need legal genders at all?message-squaremessage-square266linkfedilinkarrow-up1343file-text
arrow-up1343message-squareWhy do we need legal genders at all?neidu4@piefed.social to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square266linkfedilinkfile-text
I was originally going to ask how many legal genders there should be, but I fail to see a compelling argument against 0.
minus-squarevelma@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·13 days agoCounterpoint to 2 - femme presenting people are often discriminated against whether gender is known or not. Orientation isn’t quite as visible.
minus-squarejumping redditor [they/them]@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-213 days agopeople are discriminated based on religion fairly often too, but the feds don’t need to know what church you do or don’t go to
minus-squaremushroommunk@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up4·13 days agoAlthough I think I lean to the it shouldn’t be tracked the way it currently is, to further your point we do track other visual things by which people are discriminated against such as race.
Counterpoint to 2 - femme presenting people are often discriminated against whether gender is known or not. Orientation isn’t quite as visible.
people are discriminated based on religion fairly often too, but the feds don’t need to know what church you do or don’t go to
Although I think I lean to the it shouldn’t be tracked the way it currently is, to further your point we do track other visual things by which people are discriminated against such as race.