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[–]worried19 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I don't think it would take that much.

  1. No more self-ID
  2. No more child transition
  3. No more denial of biological sex
  4. Respect single-sex female spaces and provide designated third spaces for trans people (locker rooms, prisons, sports, etc.)

I'd be satisfied with the above and would be more than happy to be friends with the trans community if they would only dial it back to that point.

[–][deleted] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Do you think maybe repealing self-ID policies or at least seriously scaling them back would be enough of a catalyst to affect everything else? It kind of seems like the other things will collapse or start to crumble if just that one thing were to happen, but maybe that's oversimplifying things.

[–]divingrightintowork 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It'd be interesting but also so hard to put back in the bag - what about all of the people who already changed their documents?

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That's a good point. It's maybe something that could only happen gradually over time, especially because of all those people. Scaling back or repealing those policies may really upset some people too since there would still be those who so easily changed their documents and paperwork, and people might feel it deeply unfair to suddenly not allow that for everyone else.

Actually, maybe this scenario wouldn't be too dissimilar from how popular drugs of the past that were liberally prescribed were found to be highly addictive. Many of those people who had been prescribed those drugs so easily (in the US at least) for decades can't suddenly be cut off from medication like benzodiazepines, but doctors are otherwise vigilant about newly prescribing those drugs. Following a similar model for scaling back on things like self-ID policies seems like it could maybe work.