Eons ago when I first started to transition I was prevented from making a purchase once because my card didn’t match my female me.
The clerk then seemingly took delight in increasing the volume of their voice when informing me.
The irony being that at work one our cute “pretty plastic people” girls used the male bosses CC all the time.
Should it matter? No, but until people evolve into human beings and leave their bigoted transphobic selves behind, anything like this can, and will, be used as a tool to embarrass and harass transgender people.
What does this mean?
I might make a mean spirited remark about boy racer rev heads, but that's directed at a specific subset of the much broader male spectrum.
The females I’m referring are the vapid shallow ones that are on par with the hyper masculine males one also gets.
And I didn’t coin the phrase where I work - It was used initially by a cisgender female coworker who’d been stabbed in the back by more than one of these girls.
For the longest time these PPP girls were in senior positions in the company and always seemed to get away with doing the smallest amount of effort possible.
So no, no misogyny here - a PPP could also include males as well.
They have fake personalities and use that to their advantage with no real honesty.
It would be nice if card issuers avoided deadnaming, but there could be an innocent explanation for why a card was issued with the wrong name.
But in most countries they don't require ID in order to make a credit card purchase.
Speaking of chip and PIN, before tap to pay became prominent, people actually never touched my card, I would insert it myself (reducing risk of fraud) enter my PIN and all the merchant cared about was whether the the machine said “approved” or “declined” after doing an online check.
A bigoted store clerk might decide to apply different standards to trans people, to find a way to kick them out of the store. So yeah, my experience is similar to yours, but I don’t doubt that credit card names could be weaponized against trans people.
(I think people should be able to use their chosen name on their credit card; I think that adds comfort to their regular interactions and daily life; I just don’t think it will act as an Uno Reverse card against someone prone to bigotry against them.)
Here’s another delusion I won’t participate in. We all, each and every one of us, make a crossdresser within 0 seconds of meeting him. There’s like 12 of them that pass.
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, that don't look like the gender you'd imagine them to be.
Less trivial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/46,XX/46,XY
https://academic.oup.com/bjs/article-abstract/69/5/279/61857... "Ovulation in a cytogenetically proved phenotypically male fertile hermaphrodite"
Ovotesticular syndrome: https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/ovotesticular-disorde...
> Histology of his removed ovary suggested that ovulation had, at some time, occurred. He had also fathered a child and this is believed to be the first case of a cytogenetically proved true hermaphrodite who is fertile as a male.
That's a single human body that produced both forms of gamete.
So, which is this individual, who produces both forms of gametes?
Am I, with no gametes, a null?
How would you possibly know the false negatives (the you “missed”)?
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.
In Toronto liquor stores, the point of sale payment terminal is on a stand, facing the customer, and you tap or use chip + pin yourself.
If you get asked, you to have to show your government ID.
>[...] New research by Mastercard across 16 countries in North America and Europe revealed that 59% of people who identity as nonbinary say they feel unsafe while shopping, and 57% say they think it’s important that companies and organizations address them in a way that respects their identity.
Is this a serious issue? I don't think anyone ever checked the name on my credit card. Even when I was carded at a liquor store, they'd only check my government id, not the credit card itself. Also for online payments I don't think the "cardholder name" field is even checked, so you can put whatever you want. Therefore I'm not sure what the point of this is, other than trying to score some PR points.