Glad I let my Nexus card expire.
One of my kids is developing into a wonderful person who is not cis gendered. This type of news only makes me want to change my marker to X. If more of us could agree to do this, regardless of our personal gender, then gender conformity wouldn’t even be a thing.
Well in 'murica it still would be.
Yep I am seriously considering doing this now also. AFAIK the X means ‘unspecified’ so it’s not as if a cis person using it is somehow appropriating an identity, right? That was my main hesitation
I wouldn’t view it as appropriation. Do what you want
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I’m so tired of this shit.
yeah it really sucks :(
USA is just bursting at the seams with intolerance and abject cowardice. What a clown car country.
And speaking of cowardice, unfortunately for us Canadians, our own government is just rolling over.
I’m not terribly sure how much that is going to matter given the current disposition of most of us towards American bullshittery, and by that I mean to say that bureaucratic cowardice might play into their hands, but the people of Canada aren’t going to.
I also still have enough faith in our version of the democratic process to believe that if the current government’s posture was (or becomes) wholly incongruent with that of the body politic, we’d rearrange it next election. The fact is that Carney’s professed positions, at the time of the election at least, were aligned with ours moreso than the angry guy who lost his seat. I’m certainly less than impressed with what’s taken place since, but don’t know what I should have expected. This season’s script has been all over the place and the writing is awful.
Reflecting on this all, maybe the takeaway is that subconsciously, who I expected better from was the Americans, and that ought to be a lesson and a loud wake up call to us all.
This new rule violates the human rights of trans and non-binary people. That’s not something that is up for a majority vote. Human rights are non-negotiable, yet our government is not treating them as such.
The Carney govt throwing trans people under the bus so that business travellers can skip the line really says “ally”!
Carney is throwing everyone under the bus for his corporate buddies like the concentration camp folks Garda world.
He’s also throwing the environment under the bus to make Danielle Smith happy by working on an oil pipeline to sell more oil to Europe. (Who are working on reducing their dependency on oil already…)
We already can’t breathe here in Montréal with the amount of smog we have. But nooo. Gotta keep the “economy” rolling.
The Mexico filter is real, you just gotta come to Montreal to witness it.
Fucking hell was that a miserable week to need oxygen.
I had to search what the Mexico filter was lol! But yeah. It’s fucking real. The light is orange. Even in peak daylight. The past couple of weekends, friends and I have gone out and our throats were straight up burning. I also have asthma, which has worsened since catching covid and the damn super-flu that’s been going around, and my lungs are so congested. My medication can’t keep up. I’m fucking dying over here.
The Nexus program is more run by the US than us. They really get to call the shots on it.
The alternatives, then, are as follows: ignore human rights for trans and non-binary folks, or cancel this agreement.
I’m kind of a fan of human rights, personally
