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Re:Canadian man changes gender on government IDs for cheaper... by tomp on Thursday July 26, 2018 @04:24PM (#17620664)
How about non-unisex toilets and women-only domestic violence shelters? Personally, I oppose them, but it appears that most people support them, "discrimination" not-withstanding...
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Re:Canadian man changes gender on government IDs for cheaper... by dsfafsdaf on Thursday July 26, 2018 @04:29PM (#17620717)
"women-only domestic violence shelters" what exactly do you oppose? That there are no equivalent men's shelters, or that men aren't allowed in?

To this day my wife refuses to tell any man the location of her shelter from when her ex abused her. Might not fit into the modern gender zeitgeist, but I fully support her.

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Re:Canadian man changes gender on government IDs for cheaper... by klipt on Thursday July 26, 2018 @04:44PM (#17620907)
Domestic violence agencies could certainly abuse male victims less. A study of male domestic violence victims who contacted local domestic violence agencies for help found that 40.2% were accused of being the batterer by the person "helping" them:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3175099/#S12tit...

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Re:Canadian man changes gender on government IDs for cheaper... by tomp on Thursday July 26, 2018 @06:21PM (#17621835)
Unequal availability of assistance/capacity.
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Re:Canadian man changes gender on government IDs for cheaper... by dsfafsdaf on Saturday July 28, 2018 @03:27PM (#17634560)
OP said: "women-only domestic violence shelters"

Having men-only domestic violence shelter hardly requires removing the gender requirements of our current shelters.

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