• @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Work or government issued.

    I hate my gender, hate my body. Wish I could flip a switch and be anything else but I’m too afraid of the stigma to transition.

    But I recognize that society, the government, doctors, my family, see me as a boy. So I use he/him.

    In my mind its they/he. Some sort of demiboy or non binary, idk. I don’t want gender. I feel trapped.

  • @[email protected]
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    921 year ago

    Me and some friends used to all share one but then the fucking DRM kicked in and I had to get my own.

  • @[email protected]
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    281 year ago

    Def just bloat. How am I supposed to carry all these limes while thinking about the metaphysical connotations of gender and society?

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    Factory default but apparently I’m one of those models that run a combination of software designed for other models.

  • OfCourseNot
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    211 year ago

    Government issued and it was bloat AND it was proprietary gender. I don’t want any gender without access to the source, and the freedom to use, copy, modify, and redistribute (even charging a price) said gender as I wish.

      • OfCourseNot
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        61 year ago

        If it doesn’t respect the Four Essential Freedoms of Free Gender it is not Free and Open Source Gender.

        -The freedom to use the gender as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).

        -The freedom to study how the gender works, and change it so it does behave as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

        -The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).

        -The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          This is brilliant, I love it. It’s a joke, but it actually captures my experience of my assigned gender at birth perfectly.

  • cobysev
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    561 year ago

    The “Work/Government Issued” one make me laugh because I served in the US military, and a handful of years ago, they approved gender reassignment surgery for trans people.

    You’re allowed to receive one “cosmetic” surgery for free while serving in the US military, and this counted for that. So you could literally be “issued” a new gender by the government, for free.

    Trump became president, and while military people were signing up for gender reassignment surgery, he randomly ordered that trans people weren’t allowed in the military and had to be kicked out immediately. So a bunch of people who outed themselves to take advantage of the surgery suddenly were at risk of losing their jobs.

    Fortunately, the Department of Defense put a hold on those orders and managed to talk Trump out of kicking people out for being trans. But I guarantee, if he becomes president again, he’s not going to be talked out of it again.

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        41 year ago

        Breast augmentation is one of the more common cosmetic surgeries in the military. I actually knew someone who had hers reduced in size because they were too big and interfering with her life. Plus, wearing heavy flak vests with armor plating is painful if you have boobs, and next-to-impossible if they’re massive.

        I also had another coworker who got implants because she said her flat chest was affecting her mental health, self-image, and confidence. Now she’s one of the more confident and outgoing people I know in the military.

        The most common surgery, actually, was LASIK/PRK eye surgery. For most of my career, it was considered a cosmetic surgery. The military defined “cosmetic surgery” as any unnecessary surgery a member elected to have done. You didn’t need to fix your eyesight, because the military would issue you glasses. So it was cosmetic.

        However, in the last handful of years I was in, someone successfully argued that getting your eyes corrected would improve your effectiveness at work, and thus was a benefit to the military, not just the member. Plus, they started allowing people to become pilots if they had the PRK surgery. (You need perfect vision to be a pilot, and eye surgery used to ban you from the job.) So eye surgery is no longer a cosmetic surgery.