Willow, Venus Pirate 🏳️‍⚧️

@Willow@chaosfem.tw

Call to action to cis people: be assholes anytime you get asked for your sex assigned at birth. Write letters, complain to staff, refuse to answer. Make it impossible to collect sex assigned at birth. Be really offended that anyone would ask you. Make enough noise that if trans people want to quietly not answer or give whatever answer feels correct to them, no one will notice.

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March 3, 2026 at 5:30:54 PM
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... and if you don't feel quite ready to do this yet, warm up to it by noticing how often you're asked your sex assigned at birth, and how seldom it is relevant. Seriously. Think about it. Then start making a noise. "why do you need to know!?"

It's only relevant in certain medical contexts where the anatomy and hormone balance involved is actually necessary data, yes? Surgeries, medications that might interact with those systems, etc?

In medical context it's used to harass anyone whose body they think might be capable of pregnancy, subject them to humiliating tests, and deny them care without proof it won't harm a theoretical nonexistent person.

And also to deny what they say as being real, yes? Hmmm.

I would imagine that's done more on perceived gender than SAAB from your chart.

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