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It can be procedurally very long and drawn out, especially in less welcoming states. To your point, transitioning is a massive process. Making something bureaucratically painful significantly easier is very welcome to an overwhelming process.
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trans* people aren't crossdressers, and no, you wouldn't. Pick a random thirst-trap influencer: on almost every post on their TikTok or Insta you'd see multiple comments suggesting they are trans . Simply, there isn't a way to tell because as there is no biological marker that is a binary, as much as some would like to believe otherwise. Sex is a bimodal distribution, and as such there are people, cis and trans , tha…
Sex is not bimodal, it’s binary. We as a society have to be able to just get past this. I, for example, am a male (sex) - but I identify as a woman (gender identity). These two things can be true at the same time, and do not conflict.
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> who looks at the name on a credit card? Hotels. All of them.
really? do they still copy the details with a carbon machine? here they'll just ask you to put it in the chip&pin machine and authorise the deposit
Lol. No.
I have more than 20 American credit cards plus a handful of debit cards. The vast majority of can't be copied with those old carbon machines - they are not embossed.
The last time I've seen anyone use those old carbon machines was to pay for parasailing in the Caribbean in 2009.
>here they'll just ask you to put it in the chip&pin machine and authorise the deposit
Same in the US except there no PIN.
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> It harms everyone How is allowing someone to use a different name harmful to everyone ?
You're being disingenuous. This is the quote: > It harms everyone when we redefine safety He is saying it harms everyone when being called by the name you don't want is redefined as unsafe because it makes it difficult to differentiate between significant issues.
How is allowing someone to use a different name harmful to everyone ?
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A healthy dialogue can take place because this is:
a. a first of it's kind of service
b. introduces interesting regulatory KYC challenges (I imagine)
c. is being done, by a company at scale
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Bullcrap you can. Once my hormones kicked in I was able to blend in so well that some of my friends didn’t believe me when I said I was trans. And I got that confirmed from a third party who is honest beyond a fault. And there’s a world of difference between crisscrossing and being transgendered.
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It can be procedurally very long and drawn out, especially in less welcoming states. To your point, transitioning is a massive process. Making something bureaucratically painful significantly easier is very welcome to an overwhelming process.
Going and changing it is a pain, and would make many simple beurocractic tasks more complicated, having to explain that every document printed before the change does indeed belong to me, and here are the name change documents, and yes, I know this makes your computer system barf, etc etc.
Systems that have a separate field for a government name are great: I can have the Americanized spelling for the display name, without the hassle.
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>Interesting, is this some US thing? Because in Europe for VISA/Mastercard payments I'm quite sure the name of the card owner is never transmitted to the vendor I was surprised too but apparently it's a field that exists on the magstripe itself. Presumably something similar exists on EMV (for chip/contactless) as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_card#Track_1
Payments with the magnetic stripe is something that’s long gone in Europe. More than 20 years. Some devices may still support it (for US tourists), but I haven’t seen anyone using it for over a decade. I doubt that the number and the name can be read via EMC. Otherwise you could easily read strangers name in the subway by just holding your NFC Android phone close to their wallet. And HN would be full with such storie…