Why do we need legal genders at all?

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• heartSagan5@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’d be okay if my sex was scrubbed from my driver’s license. Like, I doubt there will ever be a doppelganger with my name at my address with my birthday that is contrary in sex to myself, ever.

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• LouNeko@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s so you legally know who to send with the children first when the ship sinks, duh. /s

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• BreakingBigfoot@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Traditionally, for inheritance & land tax purposes, the woman takes the owner’s name; her attributes, kids & possessions are settled or accounted for upon her husband/father’s death. Most of these laws were written in maritime law, where men were expected to die in battle or get lost at sea… So who gets a man’s valuables is mostly why there are only 2 genders by law, and always have been… The only reason 70 + pronouns were floated as a concept came from Marxist communist pseudo-philosophy, zionists in the White House trying to subvert the education sector and universities to push transgendeisum. That’s why all the Ivy League academic institutions have liberal democrats running them now, producing idiots. American education sector is being bought out, gutted and turned into political brainwashing camps for people who will believe anything.

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• john_save_america@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What gender someone presents as needs to be tracked for drivers license to ensure proper law enforcement. Sex needs to be tracked for a multitude of medical reasons.

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  • TheNextMuon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Gender on a drivers license is irrelevant for law enforcement. When driving a car the law needs to know your identity. What gender you have when driving a car should not matter.

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    • john_save_america@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This is bad faith enough where I’m just going to respond with the same level of bad faith: so by your logic gender isn’t a part of someone’s identity?

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  • Greystripeycat@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Like anyone for any reason cannot change their appearance at any time. Better explore how many crimes go unsolved, even with an inkling of appearance of the criminal. It’s depressing.

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    • john_save_america@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So this is the second comment I’ve seen trying to apply a sentiment that doesn’t actually refute the claim, attempt to refute it. The ability to change your appearance isn’t mutually exclusive to allowances being a beneficial data point for identifying someone. Not only is it fringe, but we already have multiple laws that deal with intentionally hiding your identity from the state or law enforcement.

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• Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Finland goes gender-less quite successfully.

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  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No it doesn’t.

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    • Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It was a joke about finish language not having linguistic gender. Which I think attributes to many smaller things like Finland being first state in the world to have full voting rights for women.

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  there’s no actual reason for having them, it’s just there because we’ve always done it that way and any sort of change is scary :(
  It does help that legal gender makes it easy to oppress people, though. that’s very convenient.

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• kepix@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  identification

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  • Poik@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Gender doesn’t help here. Or there would be no confusion over it in place of an image. The image provides more information and the gender marker is unreliable as an identifier even for cis people.

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• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’ve discovered the transphobic argument.

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