For ID purposes. The solution is to add other options for non-binary people, not to remove the gender component altogether.

It could come in handy if you’re a woman named Leslie Smith and a man named Leslie Smith is on the no-fly list. Or some such. It’s just another bit of identifying information. There’s more utility in having it than not having it. Better to add a specification for intersex people than remove it altogether.

I obviously read the article as I suggested that X for intersex be added to reflect biological reality. And actually, sex means biological sex- not gender. The picture is present to reflect representation. Male and female are biological, not gender terms. They are absolutely present on some government documentation…

Identification. Suppose you’re lost, your identity could be communicated verbally like “John McJohnFace, 32-year-old male” and that could be used to help paint a mental picture of an individual. While not all males look alike, it can be more helpful than just an X or something arbitrary.

Will people quit mixing shit up? There is no gender designation on a passport. It has a designation for biological sex only. “Female” isn’t my core identify any more than “male” is my husband’s. Passports should be updated to reflect X for intersex because it is a biological reality, not for gender inclusiveness. Or,…

The first thing that comes to mind is name ambiguity (I’m sure there could be other risks, just the first I thought of).

So let’s be clear here just a second. 95% of the article has nothing to do with anything. She was held in a specially-created trans holding unit (which may or may not be a good thing depending on what day and whom you ask); she was (according to ICE) suffering from AIDS/HIV-related health complications; she was…

LGBTQ men people do go on rampages, actually. They usually just aren’t front page news. Gianni Versace died to one. But usually the media isn’t interested in narratives that don’t fall on heterosexual white people.

Nobody ever gives a shit about the women loners.

“A ginger makes me feel uncomfortable”

This conversation is about women in prison. Not sharing a bathroom or a changing room. No one is saying random transgender women are going to rape people. Men who were convicted of sex crimes against women who then transitioned in prison are being housed with women and threatening them with rape.

So women should not be concerned about being housed with convicted sex offenders ... because the first page of google is telling you no transgender women would ever do the stuff they convicted of?

Yep exactly - it’s not doing anyone any favours pretending there are no differences in these two populations of people. Jezebel comments used to be a place where one could debate feminist issues like this with respect shown on both sides, now it’s just becoming the oppression Olympics where you get jumped all over for…

I also find this idea that cis women are hysterical (and “snowflakes” or even TERFS) really problematic. This shit is so complex. Why are we pretending it’s not?

It is categorically unreasonable to expect women to try and parse the level and sincerity of a stranger’s gender dysphoria in that kind of dangerous setting. And if you’re expecting to be automatically believed and respected whenever you say something, just because you said it, you are definitely still a guy on the…

What complete and utter bullshit. A penis isn’t just a body part. Men have been using them as weapons against us for thousands of fucking years. Women have every right to feel unsafe and uncomfortable around them, especially in a setting like jail or prison.

How fucking dare you accuse me of playing the rape card? Fuck you and the horse you came in on.

So let’s have totally mixed prison populations should we? Because there are zero reasons to have them if it’s going to go on gender lines rather than sex.

I hope you know that it’s legal for prisons to divide prisoners up by race as well, because of the prevalence of race-based gang violence.

This is an argument for oversight in prisons so men do not get raped at all.