#gender equality

[animentality]

[heterorealism]

Truck comes first and if there is any money left over the kids may eat. - Modern Consumer Patriarchy

[catboyandroid]

Fighting for full and total bodily autonomy is absolutely necessary for the safety and happiness of all people but especially trans people.

No one should have to justify modifying their own body.

No doctor should have a say in getting HRT only teaching you how when you ask for it. No doctor should be allowed to deny gender affirming surgeries because you don't meet criteria.

Your ability to make children should hold no weight in surgeries requested by a patient.

No human should have to jump through hoops or cut through red tape just to live in a body they are happy in.

Bodily autonomy must be a human right

[fisewalafel]

yeah i know women were basically seen as subhuman throughout the whole history; but we as feminists shouldn’t forget about the suffering men have to endure under patriarchy: being called woman-like (derogatory) in case they fail to support the system of male supremacy.

[jurisfictional]

every time someone tells you that women drivers don't belong in formula 1 because "they'd have to modify the cars to make it fair for women," remember that f1 constantly adjusts the rules to make the sport fair for male drivers.

this is a sport where being shorter and lighter = aerodynamic advantage. but that would disadvantage tall, heavy men! so what does the FIA do? they create a minimum weight requirement for the car and the driver. teams literally have to add weight to the cockpit to make up for shorter/lighter drivers.

this is a sport where the "formula" changes every few years. it's not about building the fastest car humanly possible — it's about building the fastest car possible within the regulations. those regulations can artificially control for ANYTHING. the formula has always optimized the safety and drivability of f1 cars based on the historical default driver: a man. why not have them make small tweaks that would equalize the cars for women?

and for everyone who says that women don't belong in f1 because they aren't as strong as men*, remember that f1 cars didn't have power steering for the first 40 years of the sport's existence. they have literally changed the formula to make the cars easier to drive—for men—before. they can do it again to make it easier for the sport to include women.

*also, many elite women athletes are more than strong enough to compete in f1.

obviously regulation changes alone won't fix women's representation in the sport — there's a pipeline issue, lack of funding for female drivers, sexism, etc — but they are possible without delegitimizing the sport.

[shinobicyrus]

Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling

The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

On Monday, the Montana Supreme Court issued a landmark 5-2 ruling declaring that "transgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination," and that transgender people constitute a suspect class under the state's equal protection clause.

Nice to hear some good news, for a change.

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