• Rokk@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know how unpopular an opinion it is, but surely anyone just deciding to self ID as a different gender opens huge safeguarding concerns?

    I’m all for the process being easy for them to work through, but literally just doing it yourself seems excessively easy and abusable.

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      1 year ago

      Would you be able to give any examples? I can’t really think of much that would crumble under a self-ID system, and I would suspect there’s some restrictions on things like how often you can change, so you don’t have people changing for things like government bonuses or whatever might exist.

      A lot of other things like “women’s shelters” or “men’s clubs” tend to be based more on society’s view on you as a man/woman rather than any sort of legal check.

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        1 year ago

        You can’t think of any circumstances where a man claiming to be a woman to enter what is generally a space reserved for the opposite gender with malicious intent wouldn’t be concerning?

        Surely basically any changing room or bathroom in the country meets this criteria?

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          1 year ago

          The examples you give are bad - in those spaces you are judged on how you look, not your legal gender. Many men and women have been questioned in changing rooms / bathrooms just because of how they look, even if they’re cisgender.

          So I can’t really see how changing your legal gender freely is going to cause issues. There is nobody stopping a man going into a womens changing room or bathroom already.