• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I didn’t say I thought it was necessary. It exists, that’s just it.

    Necessary or not, is, again. A very complex question.

    I’m Spanish, from Spain/Europe. We have some laws made in favour of women. For instance, a special court of law that is only invoke in a case of a man hurting a woman he had a romantic relationship with. It’s called “Juzgados de la mujer”. We have also gender quota por power positions they have historically not being allowed to occupy.

    This may seem logical, as there are thousands of women killed by their male partners

    We also have, recently, a law that allows anyone to change their gender at any time, no questions, no prove requires to being trans to do so. You can just go to the civil office and change your gender.

    This also may seem logical. As trans are usually prosecuted and can get denied a gender change if the civil official didn’t like them.

    But with these two things in place we happened to had a big number of cis males, that are 100% cis, going to change their gender just to get “inmunity” to “Womens court”. Also several cases of cis males changing their gender to get into womens quota required for some positions (for instance here there’s benefits and sometimes is required that half of the directive positions are filled by women).

    So we have a conflict here. At least I see a conflict. I don’t even have the answer on what to do, as two of both things seem right to me (supporting a positive discrimination for a historically discriminated group and helping trans to be what they truly are). But cis males being able to break positive discrimination and mocking trans at the same time feels wrong to me.

    And the ultimate question to this topic is “What it is to be a woman”. For what I do not have the answer, but I would love to know.

    And of course, in my book we all would be genderless, and there would be no discrimination. But my personal utopia is, sadly, not the world we live on.

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      This may seem logical, as there are thousands of women killed by their male partners

      No, it doesn’t seem logical. Men can be killed by their women partners, men can be killed by their men partners, women can be killed by their women partners.

      It’s only “logical” in a heteronormative patriarchal society.

      This also may seem logical. As trans are usually prosecuted and can get denied a gender change if the civil official didn’t like them.

      Again, this does not seem logical. Why do you need a law to allow you to change gender?

      “Womens court”.

      Something else that is not necessary.

      (for instance here there’s benefits and sometimes is required that half of the directive positions are filled by women).

      Benefits should not be gendered, but the quota thing is the closest you have gotten to something being necessary in terms of legal definitions. But even there, all you have to say is that gender discrimination in hiring practices is illegal and it doesn’t have to apply to any specific gender.

      Also, you are acting like ‘man’ and ‘woman’ are it and there is no such thing as a nonbinary gender. You are incorrect.

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        I literally never said anything against non binary, but ok.

        I’m just explaining the legislation you asked me to explain.

        Legislation on my country does not take non-binary as an option. So I didn’t talk about it. We could have talked about it if you asked about that, as I have lots to say as an non-binary person.

        I feel like you are not really reading me. And I’m feeling more hostility towards my person that I want to feel. So I’m out.

        Have a good day.

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          Legislation on my country does not take non-binary as an option.

          Which is also not logical.

          No one is denying that gendered laws exist. We are talking about what is necessary. I am reading you. You just are not understanding that those laws are not necessary laws the way they are written and can be easily be rewritten to apply to all genders.