You have to a lot more reaffirming who you're speaking about if you're forced to use pronouns differently than normal. And that's stuff people can't do well because speaking the language as we all know it is whatever the mental equivalent to muscle memory is.Do you get terribly confused if you're in a group with more than one man and someone says 'he'?
Because the issue is nothing to do with tomboys. I still have no idea why you even brought them up.
The issue is that it doesn't fit how people identify, and disregarding someone's identity is just fucking rude.
"And so" the way you used pronouns is false according to the bill. Can you acknowledge that, rather than shifting the conversation onto punishments?
You brought up the fact that in the past people couldn't express themselves so they couldn't say they didn't want to be called a different pronoun, which makes sense and all. However, when people did change their behaviors, looks, interests, etc publicly without fear of threat, neither side changed their pronouns. How is it not rude for someone to accept that other people use pronouns based on sex? How far is this gonna go? Firefly is my favorite show so I can identify as a browncoat right? Do I demand people call me a browncoat? No, because that's fucking stupid. People already have problems remembering people's names let alone having to remember, in essence, a second name. It's just not a thing that's gonna happen.
You jumped in mid-conversation between me and Agema, who was claiming the "[Republicans] think it's totally a-okay to make trans people feel like shit and are legislating to make it happen" and that isn't true, that's not what the bill is doing or says. It says the state sees pronouns as sex-based and you can't punish employees for using pronouns based on sex and you can't force pointless trainings on them. That's all it says, it doesn't say people can't ask to be referred to as a different pronoun nor does it say employees can't use different pronouns either. It's no different than the official term for a car being automobile at the DMV and people using car instead.
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Do you not understand how gender and sex are 2 different things...? Do you not understand that neither sex nor gender are "what Phoenixmgs reckons someone looks like"?
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My friend in high school worked through all those restrictions outside of probably the time and school hour ones because his family needed the money. What's a kid to do that dropped out of high school if they can't work during school hours? Rather have them on the street dealing drugs?16 and 17 year olds in the US can have jobs in every US state. They just also have a number of restrictions on the type of work they can do, the number of hours per week, and the times of day. Florida seems intent on rolling as many of those protections back as possible.
Bill can be read here in full
Key highlights:
- Removing restriction of minors working before 6:30am or after 11pm
- Removing restriction of minors working more than 8 hours the day before a school day
- Removing restriction of minors working more than 30 hours in one week during the school year
- Removing restriction of minors working during school hours (note: exception already existed for those in a "career education program")
- Removing restriction of 16-17 y/o from working 6 or more consecutive days in a week
- Removing restriction of 16-17 y/o from working 4 or more hours straight without a 30min meal period break
- Removing restriction of 16-17 y/o working any number of hours less than full adults
- Removing ability of counties and municipalities to place more stringent curfews on minors (note: likely to prevent them from endrunning around the above changes via curfew law)