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Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles
An anonymous reader writes "Most of us hear the equivalent of 'let me bring up your record' several times a week or month when dealing with businesses and government agencies; sometimes there's a problem, but clerks are accustomed to dealing with changes in street address, phone numbers, company affiliation, and even personal names (after marriage). But what about gender? Transgendered folks are encountering embarrassing moments when they have to explain that their gender has changed from 'M' to 'F' or vice versa. While there are many issues involved in discrimination against transgendered individuals, I have to confess that the first thing that came to my mind was the impact on database design and maintenance."
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TFS says they encounter embarassing moments when they have to explain why they changed from M to F. Why would this be embarrassing for them? It's something they elected to do. Would having a box saying M -> F or F -> M be less embarrassing?
I could see this being an inconvenience for them, but it's an inconvenience they chose to take on. Supposedly this is more than made up for by the fact they can live the rest of their life how they feel they should be.
No sympathy. Do not change anything.
Those poor 0.0000001%. It's so tough for them.
genetically speaking, kidney donors still have both kidneys; dyed hair is still blonde; lasik patients still can't see for shit; and despite a corrected cleft palate, you're still a disgusting freak.
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can we please just stop with the bullshit already? you can cut off your dick and take all the hormones you want. you are STILL a male. Just like if you get colored contacts to change your eyes from green to blue, you STILL have green eyes.... This political correctness bullshit is more annoying than aanything
can we please just stop with the bullshit already? you can cut off your dick and take all the hormones you want. you are STILL a male. Just like if you get colored contacts to change your eyes from green to blue, you STILL have green eyes.... This political correctness bullshit is more annoying than aanything
Thank you. This is basically exactly what I was going to say.
Why would you be embarrassed? The software was designed for typical situations. That is reasonable. It's not your fault or the fault of the software designer. It's the fault of the few trying to live some kind of sexual fetish.
Sex IS gender, no matter what twisted PC redefinitions and 'research' the college campus queers are throwing around these days. These people think gender is some kind of social construct instead of something that is very closely tied to biology. They're as whack as the scientologists.
gender a : sex
b : the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender
So an extreme minority has to explain to most people why they need special treatment? What else is new? Even a straight white male with a broken leg in a cast needs to explain his situation to the airline attendant in order to get his seat squared away. The fact is, he may be turned down for the flight because of it. Either example is life on the fringe. The further one goes, the harder it gets. It sucks but we are not all equals and society can't afford to roll out the red carpet for every little difference. That's life. A transgendered 'woman' is a man who had his penis and gonads removed in order to live out some kind of sexual fetish. He's still a man.. just has issues. There is no reason why society should be forced to pay for and play in his fantasy. If he wants to be a 'she' then he should check off 'she' and be done with it. Eventually, though, 'she' will end up holding up whatever process 'she's involved in because 'she' is really a he and other women won't accept 'her' in their space, or 'she'll end up with the wrong kind of medical care.
Fuck off dude. Nobody cares about your gender and there arent trucks full of rednecks coming after you. If you stop alienating yourself, these problems will go away. Instead you take the easy way out buy moving.
I'm aware of this. Others/some/all even force you to go a year (I think it is a year) living as the opposite gender before you can get the surgery. That doesn't change my view though. It seems drastic, to me, to go through gender reassignment to overcome a mental health issue BUT, as I clearly stated, I'm not in a position where it impacts me thus I'm not sure my ethics apply to the situation at all. I understand that there is a lot of social stigma surrounding this but lashing out at me is futile and I'm on your side. I can understand the instinct to lash out but make sure you read and understand what I write before doing so - I mean no harm and only want equal rights for you, your fellow transgendered folk, and everybody else. I'm a strong supporter and advocate for equality and individual freedom.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
Right ... The mental health issues are a side effect of the totally normal and productive behavior of extreme self mutilation that from an evolutionary stand point is suicide.
Do you actually think about what you are parroting before you say it?
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How is calling a spade a spade bigotry?
While there are some quite inflammatory remarks here, most of them seem to simply be of the not wanting to deal with peoples irrelevant emotional bullshit.
People don't give a crap how others act or what they want to call themselves, but the slashdot demographic have a penchant for details, they like to cut through emotional bullshit.
A man wanting to call himself a lady is more than welcome to.. but he is still a man, your feelings do not change reality.
What a lot of people want is to just get by, do/make nice things and cut the crap.
I notice a lot of "us vs them" mentality with the people who choose empathy over reality, when really there is no need to fight. There is nothing wrong with wanting to call a spade a spade. If the spade is offended by that then tough.
What I'd like to see is people embracing whatever they do instead of hiding behind emotional crap. You're transgender? fine, who cares. Don't like being called a man when you are one? why should you care, it is true, don't be ashamed of what you are.
"gender identity" is a complete load of bollocks. It is ascribing behaviours to sexes that are not necessarily the case, since if it were we would not have these issues. To be perfectly clear it would be more accurate to say for instance "I am male, but have behaviours typically attributed to females."