Episode 137: Dean Spade
Gender Reveal
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Getting Red of Gender Markers on ID
I think our ID reform approaches should all be oriented towards hollowing out the meaningfulness of the surveillance state and reducing it, not trying to be seen accurately. I was never interested in pushing for a third gender marker, because to me that feels like more like a project of trying to being seen accurately. So you can have a different gender marker and multiple pieces of ID because they have different standards for changing it or because you did or didn't change or you couldn't afford to or whatever. All of the chaos that ensues lands on you,. Like the DMV system when it got tied to like federal stuff through the real idea act and people are getting these mixed mismatch letters. And it's
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