▲ 383 ▼ Single-sex toilets must exclude transgender people, says Equality and Human Rights Commission (www.theguardian.com) submitted 3 months ago by Valuy@lemmy.zip to c/world@lemmy.world 379 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) "at birth" is an oversimplification, not meant to be accurate its probably used so commonly because the not-yet-born human is usually not really considered permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] davidagain@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) afab and amab are commonly used abbreviations in the trans community. They stand for Assigned Female at Birth and Assigned Male at Birth. Cis men don't describe themselves as "amab" they just describe themselves as men. Absolutely "assigned” is used to describe a potentially imperfect decision by the nurse to label a baby male or female, based on the limited information they have at the time. There's a lot more to gender than just what the nurse sees when you pop out, even for cis people, but what gets written down doesn't take anything else into account. Trans people have typically thought this stuff through a lot and are using words carefully, whereas you seem resistant both to the meaning of the verb "assigned" and the context "at birth". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) not really sure what point ur trying to make also Trans people [...] whereas you [...] i am trans, specifically agender the pride flag is in my profile picture and my bio says they/them permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] davidagain@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago not really sure what point ur trying to make It was a minor correction over the meaning of the word assigned. And whilst quibbling over that word, I misused another more important one, so I'm being hypocritical, I see. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) afab and amab are commonly used abbreviations in the trans community. They stand for Assigned Female at Birth and Assigned Male at Birth. Cis men don't describe themselves as "amab" they just describe themselves as men. Absolutely "assigned” is used to describe a potentially imperfect decision by the nurse to label a baby male or female, based on the limited information they have at the time. There's a lot more to gender than just what the nurse sees when you pop out, even for cis people, but what gets written down doesn't take anything else into account. Trans people have typically thought this stuff through a lot and are using words carefully, whereas you seem resistant both to the meaning of the verb "assigned" and the context "at birth". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) not really sure what point ur trying to make also Trans people [...] whereas you [...] i am trans, specifically agender the pride flag is in my profile picture and my bio says they/them permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] davidagain@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago not really sure what point ur trying to make It was a minor correction over the meaning of the word assigned. And whilst quibbling over that word, I misused another more important one, so I'm being hypocritical, I see. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 months ago (1 child) not really sure what point ur trying to make also Trans people [...] whereas you [...] i am trans, specifically agender the pride flag is in my profile picture and my bio says they/them permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] davidagain@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago not really sure what point ur trying to make It was a minor correction over the meaning of the word assigned. And whilst quibbling over that word, I misused another more important one, so I'm being hypocritical, I see. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago not really sure what point ur trying to make It was a minor correction over the meaning of the word assigned. And whilst quibbling over that word, I misused another more important one, so I'm being hypocritical, I see. permalink fedilink source parent