Comment on Schools in England and Wales using ‘gender toolkit’ risk being sued by parents
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 5 months agoWhy do programs have default settings if they’re not the ideal settings for everyone?
As I said in my previous comment, why shouldn’t the objective be to reach a point where transitioning is completely painless?
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 5 months ago
I don't think you can really compare screen resolution with the establishment of a disprivileged class that didn't exist
Why should a person need to transition? Why do cis people need or deserve the privileged status there being a default they adhere to grants them?
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 5 months ago
I beg to differ. Screen readers aren’t enabled by default, and disabled people who need to access them often need the assistance of someone who can see the screen in order to enable them. Mainstream platforms such as Android are better about this (turning on the screen reader by holding both volume buttons down for 5 seconds), but even then people are required to know about the shortcut. I don’t think anyone would argue we should remedy this by turning the screen reader on by default, no?
I believe this answers your second point as well. You have to call children something before they’re old enough to understand what gender is. Pose the question to them at age five and whatever they tell you is their gender from there on out, but there needs to be something before then.
FfaerieOxide@kbin.social 5 months ago
Are you describing ableism as an argument against the existence of privileged classes??
AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 5 months ago
No???
Of course privileged classes exist. I just described one and described a way to lessen the impact of its existence, since eliminating it entirely is completely impossible.
So too is the case with infants having names and genders.