duckfan
Re:Why I don't discuss politics with friends
on Thursday April 03, 2025 @03:07PM (#43573973)
A lot of people strongly believe this to be true. However, the evidence does not support this.
Re:Why I don't discuss politics with friends
on Thursday April 03, 2025 @02:30PM (#43573559)
Perhaps think on that a bit more then. Consider for example that female-only spaces don't exclude women who are pregnant with male babies.
Re:Why I don't discuss politics with friends
on Thursday April 03, 2025 @12:38PM (#43572214)
The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar so we know that Zazu Nova must have been there due to being a gay man. As the previous iteration of the website describes Nova as "queen", "she" and "transgender woman", this means that in 1960s terminology Nova would almost certainly have been understood to be a transvestite, possibly a drag queen.
Sources on the web refer to Nova having involvement with the Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries group, which fits with that description also.
Re:Why I don't discuss politics with friends
on Thursday April 03, 2025 @12:31PM (#43572124)
I don't think anyone is arguing that you should be barred from taking your hypothetical two-year-old daughter into the men's bathroom if the need arises. That's really not the issue.
Re:Why I don't discuss politics with friends
on Thursday April 03, 2025 @10:06AM (#43569916)
Interesting to see the difference and I agree that's an inaccurate edit. For historical accuracy it should describe Zazu Nova as a gay man who was also a transvestite or drag queen.
Re:Why I don't discuss politics with friends
on Thursday April 03, 2025 @08:58AM (#43568956)
Doesn't this change make it more historically accurate? In 1969, the year of the Stonewall uprising, the "TQ+" hadn't been invented yet as a cultural concept. The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar and was being targeted for that reason.
Re:Why I don't discuss politics with friends
on Thursday April 03, 2025 @04:04AM (#43566395)
The most relevant link on the website seems to be the one listing bills that actually passed: https://translegislation.com/bills/2025/passed
From a brief scan through, it includes measures like mandating that single-sex spaces are single-sex spaces, collecting accurate statistics on sex, preventing the teaching of gender identity beliefs as if they are facts, and preventing children from being given certain controversial pharmaceutical and surgical interventions.
None of that appears to be about destroying anyone's lives.
Re:Why I don't discuss politics with friends
on Thursday April 03, 2025 @03:10AM (#43565912)
How are their lives being destroyed?
Being told that you have to follow the same rules as everyone else for e.g. spaces designated to be used solely by the opposite sex, doesn't seem so bad.