Trans activists honestly need to start demanding stuff that’s not in the Overton window. Give me those ideas that should be reality but feel unhinged to even suggest:

HRT over the counter and free
Puberty blockers free at every school nurse
All transition surgeries and hair removal free
Prosecute “conversion therapy” torturers
Strip nonprofit status from any org which refuses to allow trans people to use the correct facilities

Hit me with your best shot

@Athena Elon fanboys/adult Harry Potter fans should be hunted for sport
@Athena Automatic puberty blocker prescriptions for _all_ preteens until they decide they're sure they want one puberty or the other.
@substandard @Athena
I never wanted a puperty, but I like my adults hormones as long as they will last 😒
@LeelaTorres @Athena Puberty blockers are a short term measure. You would have to chose one or the other at some point for health reasons, as I understand it, so you would not have missed out on your adult hormones.

@Athena Recognition and support (including legal and employment) for names and pronouns that vary by the day or hour.

Paid transition leave, like parental leave

Mandatory ungendered restrooms

Massive research funding into all the different HRT variants that trans people are trying

Remedial medical training for endocrinologists

@isaacg @Athena amazingly transition leave is sneaking into some collective bargaining agreements here now and it is wow such a concept

@helle @isaacg @Athena technically in GB we even have it by law, on par with sick leave

Of course sick leave is increasingly useless and where are you even getting healthcare from, so not sure how much it's even been ‘used in anger’ but it's there …for the next 5 minutes at least…

@purple @isaacg @Athena sick leave would be in addition to this

this would be to just deal with all the other logistics and things that sick leave doesn't deal with

(there is already a legal definition due to these CBAs)

@Athena you ticked pretty much all my boxes, so I would probably start listing non-trans-specific things like UBI, free college, universal healthcare, etc.

I do have one, though: a single form that you fill out with your name and gender, and it propagates through federal and state agencies to change that information wherever it's incorrect, including your birth cert, social security, license, and passport. You can present this form at any private entity that stores your name and gender and they must honor it, quickly and completely, the first time. All for free and with only modest limitations, such as "you can't change your name and gender more than once a day."

I was going to include "starting when you're 18," but you said "should be reality," so I think we can do better. I think this should be possible independently at 14 (or earlier) without question, but whatever the barrier to entry is, a person should be able to at least petition for it without parental support. Those that need to petition for it should have free legal support in that process.

@sillyCoelophysis re: form. In a way this exists now, under GDPR privacy rules. I have used that approach when I couldn't be bothered to figure out how some company does things. Email their data protection officer (they have to have one), informing them that they have incorrect data on you and ar legally required to correct it. Done!

@Athena

@ebel @sillyCoelophysis @Athena Yes, a big thing would be to get GDPR-style civil-rights legislation everywhere, including the right of deadpersons to be forgotten. Helps everyone.
@sillyCoelophysis @Athena
Cover misgendering as an ADA violation?
@peribotsarah @Athena I'm not sure I want to experience the backlash of that. But fuck it, let's gooo!
@Athena deadnaming/misgendering is abuse, especially kids
@Athena escalating fines for failing to update and use the correct name for businesses, half to the state and the other half to the person
@Athena still salty they removed that from the Kelly Loving bill the last leg sesh here
@rho @Athena
According to legal precedent, willfully deadnaming or misgendering a trans person in the workplace is a form of harassment under Canada's Human Rights Act. Several plaintiffs have been awarded considerable damages over the last ten years.
@Athena @YKantRachelRead if you transition, groceries become free and you're allowed to stop paying rent
@atax1a @Athena @YKantRachelRead i mean, yeah, since trans people are invisible 364 days a year, you can just shoplift
@Athena Trade in old clothes for new and improved outfits.
Pay all trans folks and cis women the same as cishet men.
Any state removing fluoride from drinking water must replace it with puberty blockers.
Lower the voting age to 15, or 12 for anyone with a uterus.
No gender markers at all on passports or driver's licenses.
No gender reveal parties before high school.
70% tax rate on millionaires and up, 90% on churches, 300% on conversion camp operators.
@Athena Oh, and every kid kicked out or abused by their parents or in foster care gets immediate emancipation, free housing, and free tuition for four years of college or trade school.
@LinuxAndYarn @Athena
> for anyone with a uterus
?????? Why are we adding obvious discrimination to otherwise OK concepts?
@LinuxAndYarn @Athena
Also, putting puberty blockers in the water? To turn the friggin frogs neutral??

@halotroop2288 @Athena The request was for unreasonable proposals to yank the Overton window out back of the fascists' hands. So I had to throw in a real honker.

But frogs (1) aren't in the drinking water and (2) are already good at turning neutral all on their own.

@Athena these all seem reasonable to me tbh

@Athena

i love these! here's my trans utopia requests

abolition of gendered toilets (and visible urinals tbqh, make everything stalls)
more funding and research for the white whale surgeries such as womb transplants (or stem cell home grown wombs or whatever)
universal common law name/gender changes (just start using the new name/gender, no legal process required)

the hormone that lets me breathe fire

@Athena remove gender assignment from birth certificates and other identity documents
Classify anti-LGBTQ extremists as terrorists, as we already do for anti-Jewish groups
Compulsory sex education in schools must include gender education and history, and is not opt out for religious reasons (also improve knowledge of black history, because there's otherwise major gaps)
Use of they/them pronouns by default, unless the recipient has explicitly given a preference

@Athena

My idea from way outside the Overton Window is more of a general human rights issue but would help the trans community as much as everyone else.

A maximum wage tethered to the minimum wage. Say, 10x. That means a maximum wage of $72.50/hr or about $150k/yr in America. Anything above that is taxed at a 100% marginal rate. Tax earned and unearned income the same.

I'm totally cool with your ideas, also. Health care should be free, and "conversion therapy" torturers should serve a looong stint in prison.

How 'bout we expropriate the fortunes of the Forbes 400? Call it a jubilee and redistribute it to every American. It'd be $15k per citizen. $60k for a family of four.

How about requiring all employers to pay employees at the same rate regardless of immigration status? Make it illegal to underpay migrants, and enforce that shit hardcore. You won't have to put many Brads and Debbies into Riker's for underpaying their Honduran maid for the rich people to get the message.

How about we annul literally /every/ corporate charter and require them to reapply with an explanation why a corporation is best suited to their particular task rather than a public or private entity? The East Indies companies wouldn't have had a problem. Corporations aren't fucking people; there's no moral harm in killing one.

I like thinking outside the Overton Window.

Brazilian national healthcare (free for anyone) does transition surgeries. At first it was only MTF, but now includes other procedures — I don’t know exact details).

Sadly funding for healthcare is limited (as many things in a developing country), so in practice that means wait times can be as much as a few years, but I love that this is a possibility already, even if I consider Brazil to be a somewhat conservative country. Practicing conversion therapy is illegal if you’re a health care professional, so if you do find someone practicing, you know for sure they don’t have a proper license. This needs to be made fully illegal, still.

Fact-dumping likely doesn’t help, but I hope hearing that this is not unhinged at all does help.
@Athena total morphological freedom. All "cosmetic" procedures free for everyone. Our body, our choice. Massive slashes to DoD budgets to pay for universal housing, healthcare, and education. Fund bioengineering research for full trans reproductive freedom and IRL catgirls. No gendered bathrooms, if cis people have a problem with that they can use a porta potty outside. Each trans person gets a free AR-15 and 1000 rounds. End public nudity laws. Legalize polyamorous marriage.
@Athena two of those we have in spain, so it's definitely within the window!
regirty changes could be more friendly, tho
@Athena at least 12 months of freely usable transition leave covered at full highest income over the previous 36 months

@Athena 1 years paid sabbatical from work to get your shit together during transition.

Actually trained therapists, free to access, to help people work through internalised transphobia/brainworms (instead of that being the communities job)

@Athena These are probably too tame but still better than what's in the country I'm in:

No legal names, no gender in any state documents/records.
Hate crime persecution regardless of the victim belonging to the group the hate is against. (The state shouldn't need to know if someone is trans to protect them from transphobes.)

And maybe more unhinged ones:

No legal agreements with transphobic groups like the USA or the Vatican.
Arrest their leaders when they appear here.

@Athena ban sex-based segregation in all spaces. all bathrooms and sports and etc should be open to everyone

remove sex from all non-medical records

allow me to legally be identified as a fox and therefore not pay any taxes

@eri @Athena

From medical records too. Bodies are more diverse than 2 categories. Binary gender in medical records can lead to mistreatment especially for trans and intersex people.

@Athena

The punishment for trans phobia becomes forced transition for a period of time commensurate with the offence. Let them see what it feels like to be forced to live as the wrong gender.

Legal entities that refuse to acknowledge all human rights cease to exist. Be that churches, corporations, non profits, or government departments.

Free hrt (both e and t) machines in all public toilets, like the ones for tampons and condoms. Don't even make people deal with the potential gatekeeping pharmacist.
@Athena

- name changes with legal bite. Companies that refuse to update their records face penalties, which go to the person trying to change their name. Including not updating all of the things. No more "oh sorry we didn't know you wanted to update your credit card name as well as your current account name"

- a single government change your name service. No more sending letters to 257 government departments to change it in all of the places. Send off one form and everything updates, driving licence, passport, tax office, voting register, council tax, everything.

- removal of gender from government IDs. Including passports. Shouldn't be needed. So don't have it.

@mindpersephone interestingly, there was recently a case specifically about a transgender person somewhere in the EU (i forgot all the details) where the court ruled that under the GDPR, an organization keeping records of people must update them if a transitioning person requests to correct them. the GDPR just straight up says that you have a right to know, update, and delete any personal information about you that a company might have.

(also finland has that second thing, but not the third)

@freja @mindpersephone it was Hungary and specifically related to how they recorded people granted asylum (yeah that's right, a trans guy sought and won asylum in Hungary, and then immediately sued. what a guy) so whilst a very useful precedent still needs some follow up to make more ‘universal’

(It's all very tangled in semantics of what exactly they are attempting to record and for what purpose, with fun side quests like ‘is that even legitimate to do’)

@Athena

- all names given by parents expire at 18, you must pick your own name. Maybe it's the same as your childhood name, but it doesn't have to remain.

- mandatory three sessions of gender counselling for all elected officials. Are you really really sure you're cis? Have you ever really thought about?

- it is illegal to track a person's gender. Even for medical establishments. At best you're using it as an improvised shortcut for various bodily functions. Be more specific if you need to, but ideally don't keep data you don't need.

- all example persons in documentation and instructions of any media must be non binary. No "he/she will pass the turn to the next player" etc
@Athena Every trans person gets 1 million euros
@Athena

I support a "Bodily Autonomy" amendment to the US constitution that would protect the right of anyone to do what they want with their body, so that would cover HRT, abortion, recreational drug use --
@Athena abolition of legal gender markers altogether
no restriction on name changes
complete gender-desegregation on sports and toilets
decriminalize all drugs
@Athena Honestly fuck legal names
I shouldn't go through a legal process just to change the thing others call me
"Hi I call myself X now" is all it should be
@Athena investigating potential HRTs for transneutral people, like raloxifene or tibolone, with public funds, and letting people try them for free.
@Athena + Admit that the cis sex binary is fundamentally and irrevocably an impossible myth created by colonialists to sell more colonialism.
@Athena @mindpersephone deplatform organisations who allow transphobia within their spaces/who give platform to transphobes.
@thisismissem @Athena including internet organisations ... Glaring at you meta and x, you're blocked untill you clean up your moderation policies.
@Athena Flip everyone's ID gender markers and make every cis person go through the process of changing it back.
@Athena fuck it, as a Cis man I'd like some covered laser hair removal, I don't want a fucking beard.

@Athena puberty blockers should be available and free to anyone who wants them, obviously. But I think that was a compromise from trans people, and it's clearly too far for cis people.

We should start demanding that under 18s can access actual HRT if they want (for free and informed consent). What age can girls get birth control without parental consent? Then the trans girls should be allowed to get estrogen & anti androgens.

@Athena

Prison sentences for incitement of transphobia

Existentially threatening fines for companies plattforming TERFs.

Pardon’s for everyone who assaults transphobes.

Monetary support for having to buy shoes and similar in often unavailable large sizes at a premium.

→ The point is to make actual maximal demands that would be cooler than what we would genuinely be content with, as you need something that you can compromise on.

@Athena "remove gender from birth certificates" would take years to percolate, but would help.

(I mean apparently Irish birth certificates didn't have that baby's surname until 1997. )

Tell the Cis to stop thinking that gender is set in stone.