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Apple, Amazon, Google and More Than 50 Other Companies Sign Letter Against Trump Administration's Proposed Gender Definition Changes (cnbc.com)
Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google, and dozens of other tech companies have come together to condemn discrimination against transgender people in the face of actions President Donald Trump is reportedly considering to reduce their legal protections. From a report: The move is a response to an Oct. 21 New York Times report that the Trump administration is considering limiting the definition of gender to birth genitalia. "Sex means a person's status as male or female based on immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth," the Department of Health and Human Services proposed in a memo obtained by the Times. If legislation were to move forward, it would jeopardize legal protections for an estimated 1.4 million Americans who identify as a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth, the Times said.
The statement from the companies, which have nearly 4.8 million employees, said diversity and inclusion are good for business. "Transgender people are our beloved family members and friends, and our valued team members," the statement said. "What harms transgender people harms our companies."
The statement from the companies, which have nearly 4.8 million employees, said diversity and inclusion are good for business. "Transgender people are our beloved family members and friends, and our valued team members," the statement said. "What harms transgender people harms our companies."
Civil rights act declared sex a protected class which comes with privileges, so it's a matter of government to define it. Marriage comes with privileges, again necessitating the need to define it.
Remove the privileges from sex/race/religion (ie. abolish the civil rights act and remove special tax exemptions for religions, instead just combining them with charitable organizations) and abolish federal marriage law and government can get out of it.
The obvious solution would be unisex rooms, but a lot of people react to the suggestion with horror. Such a massive violation of taboo just feels sickening - but that really is not a sound basis for public policy. If we refused every change that makes people feel sickened, America would probably still have racial segregation.
Science definitely does not say that. Science says it's complicated. Genetically we associate maleness with having a y chromosome, but there are XX people who are male by pretty much any other measure, and XY people who are female. Embryology tells us that sexual characteristics are strongly influenced by the hormonal environment in the womb, which is in turn influenced by all sorts of things. If you expand to other species, there's pretty good evidence that at least some cat mothers can influence the sex of their unborn kittens, and do so based on environmental stress. In other species sex might be assigned by things like the temperature. Some species, famously, can switch, even in adulthood.
In humans there was an idea that every fetus starts out female, then some develop male characteristics. Not surprisingly, it's more complicated than that. Every fetus basically has both sets of sex organs, and it seems that a complicated orchestra of hormones and signalling proteins is required to fully develop either set of organs (and suppress the other).
And that's physical sex. Science supports the idea that gender is, if anything, even more complicated, and equally "real."
In the mid 1970s, when I published the TriSexual Review, our kind were rarely discovered and poorly understood. Without the internet as a means to discreetly find each other it was rare for one of us to ever meet another. We were surely one of the smallest minorities on earth and that is possibly why the print publication failed after the first issue.
A clever researcher today could find us online. We, individually, discover the trisexual links only after exhaustive effort driven by extreme loneliness. We try scores of keywords that humans would probably never search for. There's no telling how many trisexuals out there have still not found our online home.
Because we are basically incompatible with normal human anatomy we are shunned in any attempt at sexual encounters. We could give some pleasure to both males and females, but neither are willing to engage once they see our unusual configuration of equipment. Sadly, even if humans were willing, it is unlikely that we would receive as good as we give. Only the luckiest of us will ever know the joy of connibulation with two of our own.
We've even been excluded from the LGBTQetc community; they think we are strange. It's not just that they already have a 'T' in their name; we don't have to use T, we would accept '3' for our part. No, they just don't like us crowding the ever growing list of letters or perhaps due to the fact that there are too few of us to contribute to their huge political action fund.
Which bathrooms do trisexuals use? Next time you meet someone who might be trisexual, engage in a thoughtful conversation. Demonstrate that you're not a hater, a bigot, a Trump supporter. If you seem like an open minded individual, it might answer the bathroom question for you.
...omphaloskepsis often...
Geez, what has happened to us?
As short as a decade ago, it was really easy.
You have a pee-pee, you're male gender.
If you don't, you are female.
That was never the definition. Example: A male soldier has his genitals blown off by a mine.. He didn't automatically become a female after he was mutilated. Same is true with someone born with a birth defect.. The lack of a penis doesn't (and never did) make you a female.
The standard is, and has always been, your genetics.. XX = Female. XY = Male. End of story.
I'm sure some SJW is gonna accuse me of being a hater or some other bullshit.. But facts are facts..
"Transgender" people do NOT become the opposite sex. At best they appear to be the opposite sex to the naked eye. And honestly, I'm fine with that. If you're a male who wants to live as a female, more power to you. But don't you dare ask me to discard reality and science and consider you to be a genuine female. A male->female transgender cannot have babies, does not possess a uterus, does not have ovaries, and still has a Y chromosome in every single cell in their body (assuming a post-op trans with no testicles remaining).