Canadians with an X gender marker will now have to select male or female on Nexus travel cards after Trump order
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Yep I am seriously considering doing this now also. AFAIK the X means ‘unspecified’ so it’s not as if a cis person using it is somehow appropriating an identity, right? That was my main hesitation
I wouldn’t view it as appropriation. Do what you want
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His lover is trans, you could assume good faith you know instead of being so aggressive with language policing.
Why doesn’t the roommate’s lover visit instead?
She does, they take turns.
Sorry, I didn’t intend for my comment to be rude. I was trying to mean “fuck up” in a casual rather than aggressive meaning though I can see why it comes off differently. I.e. it was supposed to be a slightly less child friendly variant of “screw up” and more akin to the (basically nonexistant) rudeness of something like “wtf”.
Fair enough that they take turns, I didn’t think of that. Still, it would probably be smart to change this though they both are probably aware of this.
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And speaking of cowardice, unfortunately for us Canadians, our own government is just rolling over.
I’m not terribly sure how much that is going to matter given the current disposition of most of us towards American bullshittery, and by that I mean to say that bureaucratic cowardice might play into their hands, but the people of Canada aren’t going to.
I also still have enough faith in our version of the democratic process to believe that if the current government’s posture was (or becomes) wholly incongruent with that of the body politic, we’d rearrange it next election. The fact is that Carney’s professed positions, at the time of the election at least, were aligned with ours moreso than the angry guy who lost his seat. I’m certainly less than impressed with what’s taken place since, but don’t know what I should have expected. This season’s script has been all over the place and the writing is awful.
Reflecting on this all, maybe the takeaway is that subconsciously, who I expected better from was the Americans, and that ought to be a lesson and a loud wake up call to us all.
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I’m not terribly sure how much that is going to matter given the current disposition of most of us towards American bullshittery, and by that I mean to say that bureaucratic cowardice might play into their hands, but the people of Canada aren’t going to.
I also still have enough faith in our version of the democratic process to believe that if the current government’s posture was (or becomes) wholly incongruent with that of the body politic, we’d rearrange it next election. The fact is that Carney’s professed positions, at the time of the election at least, were aligned with ours moreso than the angry guy who lost his seat. I’m certainly less than impressed with what’s taken place since, but don’t know what I should have expected. This season’s script has been all over the place and the writing is awful.
Reflecting on this all, maybe the takeaway is that subconsciously, who I expected better from was the Americans, and that ought to be a lesson and a loud wake up call to us all.
This new rule violates the human rights of trans and non-binary people. That’s not something that is up for a majority vote. Human rights are non-negotiable, yet our government is not treating them as such.
