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As I have mentioned before,

artappraiser — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 22:00:01 +0000

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As I have mentioned before, maybe I was imagining it but for quite some time I have noticed a trend among millenials that this is their very own hot civil liberties topic, as it were. I haven't delved deeply into why that it is, just noticed it along the way doing the news junkie thing. (It might have been some cult movie or something or another like that in their youth which triggered it? Or Chelsea Manning, etc.)

You are right to point this out. Yes, transgender rights leapfrogged over gays and women before those were "finished". But that's the point I am trying to make: they wanted a new movement of their very own? And bathroom wars was it?

I see Playboy taking this on as confirmation. They are the type of biz who would be doing targeted marketing of the new demographic. All the old fuddy duddies that they are going to get are already hooked.

Speaking of transgenders,

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 08:26:14 +0000

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Speaking of transgenders, Women's March apparently decides Bernie Sanders isn't one finally.

Of course if he identifies himself as one, then certainly headlining a Women's Convention wouldn't be wrong... unfortunately he has a history of identifying with one thing and then another.

I suspect transgenders and

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 05:20:00 +0000

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I suspect transgenders and even droid replicants will be fully integrated into society before woman are fully treated equal. I notice the PC questions for on campus, and the only one involving women was whether they were worse in math, hardly the most pressing issue. Okay, may be bitchy of me to point this out here, but it keeps amazing me.

[and no, this is not to suggest transgender people are like aliens or something - it's just to note that the Overton Window seldom expands women's way]

Californians Will Soon Have

artappraiser — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 03:04:56 +0000

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Californians Will Soon Have Nonbinary as a Gender Option on Birth Certificates

By Christina Caron @ NYTimes.com, Oct. 19

Californians who don’t identify themselves as male or female will soon be able to get a gender-neutral birth certificate.

Until now, people who wanted to obtain a nonbinary gender designation had to get a physician’s affidavit stating that they had undergone treatment for the purpose of gender transition. That’s what A. T. Furuya, a 35-year-old advocate for transgender youth at the San Diego LGBT Community Center, had to do to become one of the first people in the country to obtain a legally designated gender that is neither male nor female.

The court papers resolving that ordeal in February prompted tears. “I was shocked,” A. T. said. “I was like, ‘Oh my god, this just happened.’”

The physician letters have become a thing of the past in California [....]