Willow, Venus Pirate 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 3

Call to action to cis people: be assholes anytime you get asked for your sex assigned at birth. Write letters, complain to staff, refuse to answer. Make it impossible to collect sex assigned at birth. Be really offended that anyone would ask you. Make enough noise that if trans people want to quietly not answer or give whatever answer feels correct to them, no one will notice.

#Boost #CallToAction

Show threadZumbadorMar 3
@Willow... and if you don't feel quite ready to do this yet, warm up to it by noticing how often you're asked your sex assigned at birth, and how seldom it is relevant. Seriously. Think about it. Then start making a noise. "why do you need to know!?"
Show threadx0Mar 3
@Zumbador @Willow It's only relevant in certain medical contexts where the anatomy and hormone balance involved is actually necessary data, yes? Surgeries, medications that might interact with those systems, etc?
Show threadJuho MäntysaloMar 4

@x0 @Zumbador @Willow

In some social contextes it may be asked for statistical causes. It is, for example, quite important to find out if some service is largely used by one sex/gender when in theory the usage should be equal for the whole population.

Tbs, many forms ask data just for funsies and/or for the newsletter-greeting (and ofc you HAVE to subscribe to it).

Can't understand if they want to start the newsletter with preferred name, they won't also ask preferred title?

Show threadJeff Grigg

@iju @x0 @Zumbador @Willow

It seems to me that product and service usage that is gender specific would be much better correlated to the gender one is presenting as than some assigned birth gender.

Like clothing, makeup, hair care, etc.

Mar 4 at 2:30pmWeb
Show threadJuho MäntysaloMar 5

@JeffGrigg @x0 @Zumbador @Willow

Some considerations:

- Product usage might reflect patterns unknown to the makers/users. For example: how we found out that many medicines didn't actually work on women (the testing had only used biological men, and the results were applied to women).

- That someone is presenting one gender doesn't mean they don't have needs of their biological one. (Medicine, but also pads, condoms, etc.)

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Show threadJuho MäntysaloMar 5

@JeffGrigg @x0 @Zumbador @Willow

Every time data is asked, the case for which the data is to be used should explained. No "it might come handy" -questions. So if you ask for sex, you must declare why: to find out how the medicine works in a body, or what applications in addition to the obvious you have for condoms.

Second, and this is cultural (please don't shoot): binaric gender is a poor way in almost any situation to correlate how a person wants to be treated, and thus not worth asking.