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wakest ⁂

looking through federated timeline through my mastodon.social account to discover some news outside of my little filter bubble. learned germany is planning on easing its legal name and gender markers starting next year to be self selected without notes from doctors or therapists which is awesome... the funny part is I found this from the post of someone complaining on the fedi that germany has "lost its mind"

1 Jul 2022 at 14:17 | Open on social.wake.st
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wakest ⁂

what is bad to me could be great to you, what is great to you might be awful for me

1 Jul 2022 at 14:22 | Open on social.wake.st
wakest ⁂

sounds like this law is also being in the process of being passed in Spain

1 Jul 2022 at 14:35 | Open on social.wake.st
wakest ⁂

and I am now learning that terfs have a HUGE presence in Spain omfg this written document is depressing movimientofeminista.org

1 Jul 2022 at 14:41 | Open on social.wake.st
wakest ⁂

the auto translate of the synopsis of this federation of 50 "feminist" organizations is fucking mind boggling to me

1 Jul 2022 at 14:49 | Open on social.wake.st
Aura, Lady of a Thousand Names

@liaizon TERFs very famously also absolutely power-captured Arcilesbica, the then-largest Italian lesbian advocacy association. They’re still there, but at least there’s pushback from their peers. (Society does the bigotry work for them there anyway so it doesn’t matter a whole qlot.)

1 Jul 2022 at 15:07 | Open on lily.network
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12 past midnight 🔮

@liaizon I swear terfs have really infiltrated. The U.K. has become a terf-hive.

1 Jul 2022 at 16:59 | Open on witches.live
wakest ⁂

@Atomicbutterfly tf is wrong with these people I have no idea how this shit comes about but its just so insane to me

1 Jul 2022 at 17:02 | Open on social.wake.st
12 past midnight 🔮

@liaizon I think it’s been so coordinated on the down low. The way the far right and qanon got into femenist groups around trans issues. Then mommy groups online, then yoga, and also I’m hearing some law of attraction people use very gender stereotypical language all of a sudden.

1 Jul 2022 at 17:10 | Open on witches.live
raphael

@liaizon from the press conference the other day, it sounds like they pretty much just took the process we have for plenty other administrative changes at that office and opened it to name and gender marker – under 14, the parents decide in the name of the child, from 14 to 18, the child decides with the consent of the parents, and from 18 on, you obviously decide for yourself. you just roll up, fill out the form, and that’s that. the ministers giving the conference were big on highlighting that we’re going to move away from the pathologising mindset of the earlier legislation covering these matters.

plus, they’re tacking on fines so people can’t dig into somebody’s name change and make it public when the person themselves hasn’t done so. which, sadly, isn’t quite something we can use against deadnaming, but at least it’s a deterrent against being outed.

@liaizon from the press conference the other day, it sounds like they pretty much just took the process we have for plenty other administrative changes at that office and opened it to name and gender marker – under 14, the parents decide in the name of the child, from 14 to 18, the child decides with the consent of the parents, and from 18 on, you obviously decide for yourself. you just roll up, fill out the form, and that’s that. the ministers giving the conference were big on highlighting that...

1 Jul 2022 at 14:59 | Open on toot.cat
wakest ⁂

@gekitsu this sounds fucking great, I hope it has the ability to actually get passed through to the next stage of law

1 Jul 2022 at 15:06 | Open on social.wake.st
raphael

@liaizon yeah, this was unexpectedly good. and from the looks of it, there is some critique about 14–18 year olds needing parental consent, and i fully expect CoNcErNeD cItIzEnS of all stripes to throw a couple tantrums, but it appears to be a pretty safe affair.

earlier attempts were launched by the greens and by the market-y liberals, and both shot down because the (centre-left) social democrats were bound by their governing coalition with the (centre-right) christian democrats. and now we have a social democrat/green/liberal government, so…

@liaizon yeah, this was unexpectedly good. and from the looks of it, there is some critique about 14–18 year olds needing parental consent, and i fully expect CoNcErNeD cItIzEnS of all stripes to throw a couple tantrums, but it appears to be a pretty safe affair.

earlier attempts were launched by the greens and by the market-y liberals, and both shot down because the (centre-left) social democrats were bound by their governing coalition with the (centre-right) christian democrats. and now we have...

1 Jul 2022 at 15:28 | Open on toot.cat
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