If governments used taxes to better people's lives and not to enrich themselves, their buddies and corporations. If they didn't do means testing for benefits (or better yet scrapped benefits and implimented UBI etc instead) etc then taxes would look a lot more appealing but they either don't care or are intentionally callous.
Yes. Most of the 'west' is though. To be honest some of the 'east' is too. Most governments have done this or equally bad things. This isn't to excuse the 'US' more highlighting that there is a problem with building a group of people into an organisation that gets to make all the decisions about both a certain group or certain groups of people supposedly under their care, and who make decisions about how they should 'deal' with other groups of people.
[Sarcasm] It's almost like making arbitrary lines on pieces of paper and then isolating yourself somewhat or completely from people outside of those lines and being selfish instead of sharing is a bad idea.
They don't care. They still care about the benefits such things will grant them more than having rights.
Serial Experiments Feign
Yeah, we're a lemon, blackcurrent, orange and kumquat.
Some{one/many} who ensures that intimacy doesn't overstep boundaries, become abusive or go outside of the realm of what is in the script etc.
We assume they also explain how to make things look real etc but their primary function is to ensure actors are safe in scenes where physical (at least) intimacy is necessary/desired.
Yes, we love it!
Gender as dictated by society is fake and that is how we deal with it. The whole point of transitioning is to be yourself, not to live up to someone else's ideas or ideals of what you 'should' be.
The idea of 'passing' or acting in a specific way is not only unfairly limiting but also dangerous for ourselves and others.
Heck there are many cis women that don't 'pass'.
We understand your frustration but it should be aimed squarely at the system and colonial expectations which is what has always attempted to make the beautiful range of possibilities of what a person or many persons can be into a boring grey lump.
Be more, be you, protest the system, fight back, especially with others, push for change. Do what you need to do in order to if not be happy then content.
Edit: Also there's no such thing as a 'real girl' these people completely don't understand science, philosophy, history or anything else we have brought up here. They are dull, boring people who have sad lives and can only feel better by putting others down, ignore and block them, report them if you think it'll do good too.
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Okay! turns us all into spoons
Haha, they wish we were servile.
grins in switch
Fuck the mainstream media for pretending this is even close to okay.
It's disgusting.