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[–]RevengeOfTheCis 63 insightful - 2 fun63 insightful - 1 fun64 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Aaaaand here it is. Nearly a decade ago, I said to my TIF former friend that this is exactly what could potentially happen if self-ID ever became a thing.

She insisted over and over that my argument was bullshit. That "you can tell if someone is just pretending to be trans." Or that "male and female symbols on public bathroom doors don't stop predators from walking in."

But that's not the fucking problem. The problem is that once self-ID is accepted, you can't QUESTION whether someone is pretending or not. They're all valid. You can't QUESTION whether a male-appearing person in a bathroom is a predator. They're all valid.

And now, you can't QUESTION whether a police officer who is literally groping your crotch could get a female officer. Because now, they're ALL valid.

I am so fucking sick of this. This is literally sexual assault.

[–]Comatoast 27 insightful - 1 fun27 insightful - 0 fun28 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Right? Since the suggestion that a biological female is different from any self-IDer is nearing criminality in itself, we're being cornered.

It's overwhelmingly common for people to just assume that everyone around them only has the most wholesome intentions in mind. Barring the comorbidities of mental illness that can be tied into transitioning, you're going to just have straight up people WITHOUT great intentions to try for access to vulnerable people. When anyone confronts that, ask them what the rates are for rape, sexual assualt, sexual harassment, sexual molestation, voyeurism, etc. If someone has already committed a crime like anything in those categories, what would stop them or potential future offenders from using self-ID as an easier way of access? As obviously pointed out by the fact that we have people in prisons/jails in the first place, humans are very much not all altruistic angels.

[–]RevengeOfTheCis 19 insightful - 8 fun19 insightful - 7 fun20 insightful - 8 fun -  (3 children)

Honestly, at this point I'm just waiting for the boomer humor that's going to come from self-ID. I give it a year before old men start wearing t-shirts with dumb perv shit on them like "I identify as female, let's go bra shopping together!"

[–]Comatoast 15 insightful - 3 fun15 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

The shirts men would get with "lesbian" on it were bad enough, but behold: a new era awaits.

[–]Delia 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

As a boomer myself, I honestly think many of my age group are just disgusted by this, but we are getting to old to do much about it.

[–]RevengeOfTheCis 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I completely understand. It's especially hard to do anything about it when the current younger generation's favorite hobby is shitting all over the older generations. There is almost no respect or even recognition of the existence of life experience and wisdom anymore.

(By the way, I hope my comment you are responding to didn't come off as shitting on boomers. I was just trying to describe a specific type of humor.)