Trans issues, etc are not something I spend an enormous amount of time thinking about.
That said, something like 0.5% of humanity are hermaphrodites. It is odd that such people no longer officially exist.
I am also the sort of person who likes the confusion that conversation about gender causes people. Joel Spolsky popularized the term "leaky abstraction" in programming. It applies to most, if not all, of the categories we humans apply to the world.
I see the war against "nonbinary" sex codes as a war against sophisticated thinking. It will make Americans a little bit dumber.
Basically Trump and Project2025 enforcing their agenda.
I think the "gender" field is weird though. It reads "M" or "F". Why can't I say I don't care about this field? I feel as if the government is spying on me. They can autofill that field on their own. It's weird that passports specify that after all are already required to fingerprint here.
Can everyone stop beating around the bush now? Can we agree to call a spade a spade?
This is fascism. They are restricting the movements of the demonized outgroup (in this case, non-binary and intersex people) using the state apparatus. This will get worse. They'll categorize more and more people into the outgroup, and the restrictions will grow.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 26.6 ms ] threadThat said, something like 0.5% of humanity are hermaphrodites. It is odd that such people no longer officially exist.
I am also the sort of person who likes the confusion that conversation about gender causes people. Joel Spolsky popularized the term "leaky abstraction" in programming. It applies to most, if not all, of the categories we humans apply to the world.
I see the war against "nonbinary" sex codes as a war against sophisticated thinking. It will make Americans a little bit dumber.
They do in other countries.
I think the "gender" field is weird though. It reads "M" or "F". Why can't I say I don't care about this field? I feel as if the government is spying on me. They can autofill that field on their own. It's weird that passports specify that after all are already required to fingerprint here.
It is possible this decision triggers a debate that results in "gender on passports" being rethought.
Would be a silver lining.
https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/passpor...
This is fascism. They are restricting the movements of the demonized outgroup (in this case, non-binary and intersex people) using the state apparatus. This will get worse. They'll categorize more and more people into the outgroup, and the restrictions will grow.
https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/10/12/cbp-changes-procedure...