The Trump administration is proposing sweeping changes to the rules governing the 2030 US Census, including a requirement that could make questions about biological sex mandatory for respondents, a change critics say could effectively force transgender people to disclose their trans status to the federal government.

  • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    If it just says ‘biological sex’ without defining it then I’m marking male, because anatomy and hormones are both a part of your biological sex 🤷‍♂️

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      Anatomy and hormones you produce, yes. Injecting yourself with massive amounts of synthetic testosterone or estrogen isn’t part of your biological sex. Just mark whatever the hell you want, it’s a stupid survey. If you need it to validate yourself you have a lot bigger problems.

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        2 days ago

        So, I’m not a male because my testicles just decided to stop producing testosterone, so I have to supplement it?

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        Synthesis is not abiological. On the contrary, synthesis implies that the formation of a substance was intended by a biological organism.

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          Sure but it wasn’t your biology.

          Personally I don’t think they’d be able to tell the difference between someone not responding and a response being lost in the mail. The USPS is notoriously unreliable and should be privatized, donchaknow.

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            They send people to your address if they don’t get a response, since its based off addresses and not people.

            I had multiple people show up multiple times the last time we had a census cuz I didn’t want to deal with it. It doesn’t just go away.