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Transwomen are not Women - Part 15

d4m10n said:
At this point in time, we need to talk about adding "sex" rather than adding "gender" because most Americans live in states where the two categories have already been mashed together into a single (useless) one which suffers all the deficiencies you mentioned above but also fails to tell us sex at birth.
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Fair enough, and I do think that having separate listings for sex and gender is a better solution than having one called sex which is just a gender self-ID in practice.
 
Darat said:
That you can work out the sex by decrypting a string does not mean that the driving licence has your sex on it - there is no M or F. I bet apart from perhaps the police most people have no idea you can decrypt the sex of the person handing you their ID.
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If the information is there (and it's there in that final digit), then the question is who's use it's there for. If those people are aware of the code, then it doesn't matter if it's presented as a number or a letter or a Chinese character.

And it seems reasonable to me that the purpose of having sex on an ID is so that people can look at an ID and ensure that it is identifying the person holding it. Its not necessary for the holder of the ID to be able to do this. So, do those who perform the act of identification know this code? Again, I think it's reasonable to expect that they do.
 
d4m10n said:
This case is kind of wild:
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1805743208309440756

I'd've expected the city could have fought this one and (eventually) prevailed, given the current composition of SCOTUS, but maybe that would've been even more expensive.
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This is the sort of case that guarantees JD Vance with his bans as vice president. I think the democrats have way overplayed. There are huge numbers of lefty women unspeakable angry over this sort of thing.
 
Roboramma said:
If the information is there (and it's there in that final digit), then the question is who's use it's there for. If those people are aware of the code, then it doesn't matter if it's presented as a number or a letter or a Chinese character.
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No one uses it apart from the licence issuer. As I said I could see that the police are taught how to decrypt it but I don't know if they are.

The most recent use for it as a source of ID was for the just happened general election as voter ID. Polling station staff were not told how to (nor told to do so) decrypt the driving licence number to work out what sex the person was. It is photo ID, i.e. you check the name and the picture match with what the person presenting it says their name is - (you can also use the driving licence as an address check.)

The recent official guidelines were as follows:

What should you look for when checking an
elector’s photographic ID?
You should check that the photographic ID is
included on the list of accepted photographic
ID shown on this page. Appendix 13 sets out
the eligible British Overseas Territories, EEA
states and Commonwealth countries.
You should check that the photographic ID
includes a photo that is a good likeness of the
elector:
• Does the person have any distinguishing
features e.g. moles, scars etc?
• Compare the shape of the face and look at
the position of the main features (e.g. eyes,
ears, nose, mouth) in relation to the rest of
the person’s face.

You should also check that the holder’s name
as shown on the photographic ID matches the
elector’s entry on the electoral register.

You should not refer to any other markers on
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I've worked in plenty of places that have used the driving licence as a proof of ID - never once have I've seen any training materials on how to decrypt the sex from the driving licence number.

I stand by what I said: That you can work out the sex by decrypting a string does not mean that the driving licence has your sex on it - there is no M or F. I bet apart from perhaps the police most people have no idea you can decrypt the sex of the person handing you their ID.
 
Graham2001 said:
Commentary by the contrarians at Spiked on the Trans-Activist response to Wes Streetings announcement...




https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/07/15/wes-streeting-is-right-to-ban-puberty-blockers/
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This passage is a savage indictment on the green party, and proves Wes Streeting is a knight in shining Armour for the families being wrecked by the cult.

"Zack Polanski, deputy leader of the Green Party, has accused Streeting of ‘selling out our LGBTQIA+ communities’ with the ban and ‘continuing the right-wing attacks on trans people’. As it turns out, Polanski used to dabble in hypnotherapy that purported to be able to increase a woman’s breast size. So it’s safe to say he’s not exactly a trusted source on what is or isn’t scientifically sound."
 
This is not a good look for the SNP's Equalities Officer...

A former SNP equalities officer has been jailed for six years after inflicting “unimaginable trauma” with a string of sexual and physical assaults.

Cameron Downing, 24, attacked seven people at a variety of locations in Scotland over a five-year period between 2016 and 2021.

Downing, from Edinburgh, sexually assaulted one of his victims “on various occasions” in early 2021.

The former drama student also sent a partner threatening messages, demanded he share his social media passwords, and threatened to falsely accuse him of rape if he did not stay in a sexual relationship with him.

Last month a jury at the High Court in Edinburgh found Downing guilty of a total of 10 charges, including sexual and physical assault, and domestic abuse.
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Link

Apparently he was fond of talking about how much he liked to beat people up, so it probably shouldn't be too surprising.

Link
 
d4m10n said:
wut :confused:
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He is filing bans on Trans care for minors, which is supported by ex lefties like Erin Friday I think.
There are a swathe of single issue voters who loathe Trump but despise and fear Biden for his assault on females via Rachel Levine etc.
I thought this was a commonly understood fact. 51% annoyed that 1% are given rights to take over.
Hence every story like your link sends more women across the divide.

Here is a helpful link, an up to date article by Leor Sapir and Erin Friday

https://unherd.com/newsroom/california-passes-deceptive-trans-policy-in-schools/

"On Monday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill (AB) 1995 into law. The so-called “Safety Act” is the first in America that prevents schools from adopting any policy that would require teachers and staff to inform parents when their child wants to be referred to and treated as a member of the opposite sex or as “non-binary”."

It continues
 
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Darat said:
In the UK one of the two most used “ID” verification methods - the driving licence - doesn’t have sex on it, and I’m struggling to think why we need that info on any officially accepted ID these days. For instance the UK driving licence has a photo of you which is probably the best quick check method of verification. And given technology today if we need more than that we should be looking at biometric verification.
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In the UK, does DL get used as a general purpose means of confirming that a person is who they claim to be? In the US, they're used as an all-purpose ID document, since up until the last handful of years, most people took tests to be able to drive. We have a State ID as an alternative, and a lot of younger people (especially in cities) have decided they don't need to drive and just never learn. So when us older folks talk about DL, we're really talking about a general identification document that gets used a lot more like a passport within the US.
 
d4m10n said:
Gender is what people say when you ask them if they see themselves as a man, woman, or neither.
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I see myself as the emperor of the known universe. :rolleyes:

That's a very circular and empty explanation - it provides no useful meaning whatsoever. You're pretty much arguing that a woman is anyone who says they're a woman.
 
d4m10n said:
Okay I think you're talking about this: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2357/text

I've never yet met one. Are they numerous enough to swing a city council election?
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I meet plenty in New Zealand. I joined a political party first time ever, on this issue.


https://womensrightsparty.nz/

I did note Posie Parker got just 196 votes in Bristol, so it is moot whether it makes a difference. You will need the marginal electorates to move the dial.
 
Darat said:
I've worked in plenty of places that have used the driving licence as a proof of ID - never once have I've seen any training materials on how to decrypt the sex from the driving licence number.
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Sure, if people don't find it important to use the information about sex, they're not going to be training staff in how to find it.

(This may have been your original point, that the information about the sex of the holder of ID documents isn't generally important or used)

I stand by what I said: That you can work out the sex by decrypting a string does not mean that the driving licence has your sex on it - there is no M or F. I bet apart from perhaps the police most people have no idea you can decrypt the sex of the person handing you their ID.
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I don't see how you can argue that it's not there when it's actually there. You can maybe argue that sex isn't explicitly listed on the driver's license. And it's possible that that's enough for whatever point you were originally making (I've forgotten what this was about). I do agree with you that there's a difference between including "Sex: M/F" and having a number whose last digits encode the sex of the holder of the document.

I simply disagree with your phrasing "the driving license [doesn't have] your sex on it". If it didn't have that information there, it wouldn't be possible to look at that document and get that information.
 
d4m10n said:
Gender is what people say when you ask them if they see themselves as a man, woman, or neither.
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I think Mathew's objection about gender being able to change is less important than the fact that it's not observable. As you say, you can find it out by asking them. But that's precisely the problem with using it for ID: you cannot determine it by observation, but ONLY by asking. But the whole point of identifiable features is that you can observe them. Weight can change (although it does so very slowly in the vast majority of cases) and hair can change, but at any given moment, weight and hair color are observable features. I can determine them without asking you. And you can't just make up an answer and demand to have that answer taken as gospel truth.
 
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