Evan Urquhart

This. Gender recognition is an oppressive and humiliating system based on gender being built into our legal and identification systems and legally defined characteristics so inequality re marriage etc can be enforced. Scrap the lot!https://twitter.com/itsjacksonbbz/status/1278303765477634048?s=19 …

What is the purpose of legal gender which requires those of us who deviate from gendered expectations to seek Gender Recognition? Discrimination! It always was! It's the only purpose of the whole thing, from property and voting rights a hundred or more years ago to marriage today

Trans people have fought too long for the inclusion of special trans exceptions to this wholly fucked up system. It needs to be abolished.

The arguments against are that there are characteristics which must be legally protected based on legal sex/gender. There are numerous models (race, disability, gender reassignment!) for addressing discrimination based on characteristics which aren't statically defined legally.

The main everyday use of sex/gender from day to day is in the form of identity documents *and this use itself forms the bulk of the way that transgender and gender non conforming people are discriminated against*, by presenting with a mixture of visible sexual..

..characteristics/traits that makes identification based on "sex" problematic.

This fucks people up applying for jobs, it gets you more aggressively searched as suspicious traveling across borders, it causes people to treat us like shit around toilets and makes it difficult to access to services which are associated with one sex when we present as another

None of us would be going begging for state validation of our gender if the entire system wasn't constructed in a way which every day renders us invalid and problematic exceptions which need to be squashed out or forced through some "special" pathway we don't get to define.