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

flop_leash_973@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Jyek@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If you’re confused about the down votes, it’s probably the way you worded this thought. Saying it’s a man identifying as a woman, implies you believe they are a man not a woman and are only treating them as a woman because that’s what they want. In reality they are a woman who identifies as a woman.

  I think you being downvoted and not getting an explanation as to why might leave you to continue the same line of thinking without correction.

  It’s not a bad question to ask how this will affect trans women though. I live in a place where there are a lot of TERF women who might want to take advantage of this service and would be offended to be picked up by a trans woman.

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  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Appreciate the feedback, you are correct I didn’t mean it in a derogatory way.

    I meant someone born biologically male that identifies as a woman but because of that underlying biology has some male looking characteristics.

    Perhaps just a very poorly way of saying “what happens when the black and white nature of the rule they have set runs into the reality of a woman that doesn’t look like a traditional woman, and the passenger has an issue with that based on their own expectations?”

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  • Semester3383@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In re: TERFs, transgender people make up a very small part of the general population, roughly .5%. The odds that any given TERF would get picked up by an UBER driver that is a transwoman are very low.

    I suspect–and I’d need to be checked on this–that you would need to have gotten your gender marker changed on your driver’s license in order for Uber to correctly identify your gender. And that makes it an even smaller subset of trangender people that could trigger TERFs. OTOH, I could absolutely see a TERF going ballistic over a cisgender woman that wasn’t fully gender-conforming…

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    • Jyek@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Only takes one Karen to make the news in the South

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