Here come the No True Blue State arguments from him (and others):

"Well, Texas isn't really a Blue State, because [...]"

You've answered my second question at least. As I said in the other reply to your hostile reply elsewhere, enjoy the block.

Yeah the "in a perfect world" medical solution would be for emergency caregivers to have rapid access to "apparent sex at birth" and "current hormone levels and when they were started," but everyone here knows a lot of evil people (especially in the US in 2026) would love to have a government record of transgender people for nefarious purposes, so that's probably unwise.

I'm 90% sure LavaPlanet is just trying to stir people up to have an argument; all of their comments in this thread are at least lukewarm if not outright hostile.

It's certainly better than the status quo in many areas including mine (i.e. your apparent sex at birth is tied to your gender forever), that's for sure.

I'm not taking over anything nor trying to. All of your replies to me have been attempts to start a fight with me. Enjoy the block.

I offer a better situation than the current situation and your response is to vilify me for it. Between this thread and the other semi-hostile replies, you're obviously just here to fight.

Sex chromosomes at birth, then?

Are you being pedantic and adding ad hominem just to pick a fight?

- Morons and Liars

Gender and sex used to mean the same thing

Unrelated, but if you really want to open this new discussion: I disagree

it’s not like massive amounts of people are out there raising their kids non binary until the kids can choose for themselves, so whatever sex someone is assigned denotes the gender they’ve been assigned too.

I think you misread my comment, because I wasn't talking about cis-het-normative spaces.

You prefer sex assigned at birth to be on someone's ID?

Which is why we need to put M/W/N/(etc.) on driver's licenses while medical professionals have access to M/F/I/(etc.)

Even from the ostensible purpose of M/F on a driver's license of efficient identification, it's lacking. Then there's the medical downsides you state - I'm sure you're aware many medical professionals check IDs rather than sequencing someone's sex chromosomes before performing emergency or other care.

I expect hormones-at-birth have effects on medical care as do hormones-at-present, and I'd bet anything transgender people (or anyone that has a difference between hormones-at-birth and hormones-at-present, including cis menopausal women for example) have adverse medical outcomes due to that confusion.

The lion's share of your comment is essentially the long form of the mantra I stated I believed in, but I appreciate you explaining it for people who don't know.

To the last paragraph, that's probably the root of the confusion here; maybe one day we'll have a term for that intersection - something more concise than "sex/gender." Or is that what we're taking part in here? Using "gender" to cover both? A bit confusing to me, but maybe not so much to future generations.

Fair point, but with enough public pressure we might force the AIPAC recipients to turn their backs on AIPAC.

Feel free to dismiss my hope as naivete if it makes you feel better.

"If I win, it's the will of the people. If you win, you cheated."

- Morons and Liars

This wouldn't be nearly as big of a problem if mental healthcare was more accessible.

How many of these kids know their family or school can't afford a therapist, so they go to free LLMs?

I... never said sex or gender are binary, nor do I understand your assertion that "gender" includes all sexes and genders but "sex" does not.

As much as this is a joke, a change in iconography could be a useful symbol to establish that the era of the AIPAC old guard is over.

I would agree that people are generally assigned "sex" and "gender" at birth, I just don't understand why it seems they're conflated among queer spaces when discussing "Assigned Male At Birth"+"Assigned Gender At Birth" when I feel like it should be:

"Assigned Gender At Birth"→"Assigned Boy At Birth" and/or "Assigned Sex At Birth"→"Assigned Male At Birth."