Call to action to cis people: be assholes anytime you get asked for your sex assigned at birth.

[nilajones@zeroes.ca]

@Willow

What are people doing for online forms, where the form is incomplete until you pick a gender from the dropdown menu, and you can't get into the telemed appointment until the form is complete?

I feel boxed in

[cibersheep@mastodont.cat]

@Willow I always answer «not of your busniess» when possible but I certanly answer more anoyed and offended.

[iju@mastodon.social]

@JeffGrigg @x0 @Zumbador @Willow

Some considerations:

- Product usage might reflect patterns unknown to the makers/users. For example: how we found out that many medicines didn't actually work on women (the testing had only used biological men, and the results were applied to women).

- That someone is presenting one gender doesn't mean they don't have needs of their biological one. (Medicine, but also pads, condoms, etc.)

- [cont]

[iju@mastodon.social]

@JeffGrigg @x0 @Zumbador @Willow

Every time data is asked, the case for which the data is to be used should explained. No "it might come handy" -questions. So if you ask for sex, you must declare why: to find out how the medicine works in a body, or what applications in addition to the obvious you have for condoms.

Second, and this is cultural (please don't shoot): binaric gender is a poor way in almost any situation to correlate how a person wants to be treated, and thus not worth asking.

[lauerhahn@sfba.social]

@Willow I am cis but have been increasingly losing patience for online forms that require a gendered salutation (Mr or Ms). If they don't have Mx. or 'no response ' as an option I will just say I am a Dr.

[spocko@mastodon.online]

@Willow this is a GREAT IDEA! I think I will start to do with surveys I complete.
I have a female avatar & a male cover image. I could put in my pronouns but now that you have given me the idea I'll stay open.

[iampytest1@infosec.exchange]

@ProcessParsnip Just noting, this is a list of contracts with DHS. Not all of the companies listed in the leak are complicit with ICE's actions; many of these contracts are uncontroversial and relate to DHS' other functions, such as disaster response and cybersecurity.
For example, University of California, San Diego got two grants for threat intelligence which expired during the first Trump administration

Furthermore, this leak spans decades, and many of the contracts in it expired before the current administration.
ICE contractors might have been complicit in human rights violations then, but have nothing to do with current events, or have even broken off ties with the agency.

Finally, I don't know if anyone has verified the data is authentic, and hasn't been tampered with by the source.

[secretsloth@mastodon.art]

@geos @Willow that's a good one but I'd probably get thrown out of my doctors' if I tried it

[gerken@mastodon.social]

@Willow
With all this pent up rage at capitalism, ableism, transphobia, and corruption, lord knows I need somewhere to put it without hurting anyone. And you know damn well it's gonna be the hecking stupid gender boxes on every website and form.

[agajdosi@witter.cz]

@Willow I am trying to do that, even though I am not sure if loudly enough. Thank you for the call, I have more motivation to continue and expand now.

My favourite argument is that the state should have no interest in what I have in my pants. Liberal conservative brains have some trouble processing it sometimes.