Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US

billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Here we go, with a whole bunch more trans controversy.

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  • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yep, basically where I was going with this.

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• MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’d say “don’t give Republicans any ideas” but they’re not reading Lemmy comments so you’re good

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• michaelmrose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No because the presumption is that you will provide ID to your employer and they will go by whatever is on the ID when assigning rides.

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  • Malfeasant@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What employer? Uber drivers are independent contractors.

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• lukahh@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean when you sign up to being a driver you have to give out your information so that they can verify you are qualified so they already have that covered

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  • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well that too but I was thinking of the riders. I’m assuming only women can request women drivers.

    Or is this just a shit to uber being all women drivers?

    Women want women driver because of safety. Men want women drivers because men.

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    • sveltecider@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Asking “what gender do you identify as?” isn’t tyranny and does not involve uploading your ID. Pretty much most services I know ask “what is your gender?”

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      • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Plus, I’ve never used a ride share before but if you say as a client “I identify as a woman”, and a female driver shows up to pickup another ‘female’ client and it’s obviously a group of dudes, couldn’t she flag them as false information?

        Also not trying to trans shame, I’m literally married to a trans person.

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    • lukahh@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s posible that you would just have to check a box but I guess we’ll see, I hope that’s true bcs privacy but I can see why they would go a step beyond

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