I don't know how everyone else lives their lives but, personally, I never have a reason to think about the genitals of about 99.9% of the people I meet.

Ika Makimaki

If you say I'm a she/her or a he/him I take your word for it.
If you say I am a they /them that's all good too.
If your pronoun changes and you let me know that's a-okay, I might still get it wrong sometimes but I will do my best.

This obsession some people seem to have about the contents of other people's undies is really disturbing.

JackMex

@pezmico

It’s all organized religion and the demonization of genitalia, then intercourse, then homosexuality, then gender identity, then transgender people and so…

tootbrute

@pezmico I only care about the hardware and os people are running, not their bits.

Heinzenstein

@pezmico Besides the genitals non-issue, there is only one thing that's problematic:

Sports with different leagues for men and women.

Leagues divided by body measurements and types are the better way.

Quinn9282 🖥️🌙✌️

@pezmico If someone were to message me and the first thing they ask is "wHaT's In uR pAnTs???", then they're getting insta-blocked. That's like the LEAST important first thing you need to know about someone out of probably a thousand possible other things. Imagine if you asked that question to someone randomly in public? Just totally weird and nonsensical.

Joy_intl

@pezmico This!! I was honestly thinking about when would it be something you'd be interested in, and I came up with - if you're going to be in a _consensual_ intimate relationship. Like, if I'm merely attracted to someone, nope, not my business. But if it's mutual and there might be a bedroom encounter imminent, then yeah, I guess if something other than what you're expecting is going to happen then perhaps a conversation is in order?

GhostOnTheHalfShell

@pezmico

I like one quip I read along time ago..

no thank you. I already have one asshole in me knickers and I don’t need another one rummaging around down there

Juan Per¢ent,🇲🇽 🍉,🇻🇪

@pezmico If we meet and you tell me your name is Ika, I wouldn't start adressing you as "Joe" because I find it more fitting. It's would simply be rude.

Dar

@pezmico

If someone is deliberately misgendering or mis/deadnaming.... I assume they have a Cluster B personality disorder, and move on.

That kind of broken cannot be fixed.

Nini

@pezmico You don't involve yourself in psychosexual power plays to see if you have supremacy over someone else? Me either but it's always weird when you meet someone who does care about that.

AutistiCritic

@pezmico Almost as disturbing as the number of these people who think it’s ok to sexually abuse children so long as no-one else knows about it. 🤨

sunflowerinrain

@pezmico
After discussions involving different opinions about policing another person's gender/sex, I think there is a confusion for women (of any kind). Men are more often a threat, so some of my friends would like them identified for safety reasons.
I think the answer is to ignore sex/gender and focus on the problem of violence and intimidation, which infects only some men, and sometimes comes from women.

Trouble is I don't know of a solution.
And my friends are still suspicious of men.

Marianne

@sunflowerinrain @pezmico well trans women aren't men, so

sunflowerinrain

@noodlemaz @pezmico
I agree.

There are various fears at play: the main one is of men *pretending* to be transwomen in order to get close to and prey on women. It's possible.
There's another, much easier to argue against, that transwomen might continue to harbour aggressive male tendencies. Debunkable.

Marianne

@sunflowerinrain @pezmico trans women is two words, like tall woman, blonde woman, happy woman - trans is just an adjective. Squishing the words together makes trans people seem like a third category of human.

The fact that men aren't pretending to be trans women in order to assault women and children and just do it anyway as openly-cis men is plenty enough to debunk the first. Nobody in Epstein's circle was trans. Grooming gangs aren't run by trans women. Trans women aren't shooting up US schools. The evidence is just nil.

And yes, 'aggressive male tendencies' is nonsense. Testosterone as a hormone permits aggression, it doesn't create it. Having more makes a violent person more likely to enact the violence they're inclined towards. It doesn't create the violent impulse.

After living as a woman and physically changing one's body, there's far more in common between trans women and cis women than between cis women and cis men. But there's still so much in common across genders anyway. People are just so concerned about genitals and that is absurd.

https://www.livescience.com/health/theres-no-reason-to-ban-us-from-playing-analysis-debunks-notion-that-transgender-women-have-inherent-physical-advantages-in-sports

CJ

@pezmico @FreakyFwoof Yeah, I don't understand why some people are so preoccupied with other people's business. Some of these people are also those the talk the most about personal freedom. It seems like that for them personal freedom only counts if it lines up with their own beliefs.

Dianora (Diane Bruce)

@pezmico That 00.1 % is only important when deciding which toys to bring to bed. *whistles innocently*

Cass M 🇨🇦 :failtusk: :CApride:

@noodlemaz @sunflowerinrain @pezmico Female on male and female on female domestic violence occurs in spite of women being heavily socialized to control violent emotions. I think trans demonizing is part of culture's reluctance to admit women can be as violent as men.

Piggleston Pecanpants

@pezmico So much this. Also about my own gender. It affects me not at all what gender people want to think I am.

Doug 🌈🇨🇦 :verified:

@pezmico most people think they live in an HOA for people's bodies.