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Harsh penalties approved for Florida state college employees who use restrooms that don't correspond with gender assigned at birth | CNN (www.cnn.com)

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The bill defines female as “a person belonging, at birth, to the biological sex which has the specific reproductive role of producing eggs” and male as “a person belonging, at birth, to the biological sex which has the specific reproductive role of producing sperm.”

1.7% of the population is intersex, so where do they fit in?

[–] jcarax@beehaw.org 30 points 1 year ago

Probably in a gas chamber, the way things are headed.

[–] apis@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fairly confident that fascists don't want intersex people to exist at all. They won't say that openly yet, but they clearly find them as bothersome as trans and nonbinary people.

Nor do they want cis people wandering around thinking they can neglect to adhere to strict conservative gender norms. Indeed, this is likely what all of their deep hatred toward trans people is really about - the means to rile themselves up enough to inflict strict gender norms on the whole population. Whether they are fantasising about a world which looks like a 1950s advertisement for a refrigerator, or several levels more regressive again, they're not intending any sort of pleasant outcome for anyone whose body or behaviour or identity does not quite fit with the fascist fantasy.

They won't succeed in getting that far, but they absolutely will continue to ramp up their attacks.

EDIT: this is the crux of the phrase "trans rights are human rights". Trans, NB & intersex people are the canary in the coalmine.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Outside the bathrooms, peeing on the wall/floor... or something.

(if I were intersex, I'd go with malicious compliance)