Tom Colton
domesticated humans?!
- Location
- Singapore
- Pronouns
- he/him/his
Also, one for @Sideways, Pakistan sticks out a bit on the map of places that allow gender self ID as of 2024.
Also, one for @Sideways, Pakistan sticks out a bit on the map of places that allow gender self ID as of 2024.
I expected it from Canada and the US but it was a surprise to be reminded that Mexico is also Really That Federal.On first look, North America seems to have a lot of extra nations
Australia and Brazil too.I expected it from Canada and the US but it was a surprise to be reminded that Mexico is also Really That Federal.
It's striking that such federal systems don't seem to have a problem with something as existential as this (someone gets to define their own gender in one state or province, then crosses over a border and now they can't). Compare with the UK, where the SNP introducing Game Harwich was a big factor in what pushed the Tories into doing it in order to avoid cross-border inconsistency (and conversely we saw gender self ID being shut down in Scotland more recently).
...that is a good point and I never thought of that. Gretna Green, people!EDIT: Worth noting of course that English and Scottish marriage law have never been the same in other respects, and have actually diverged further in some ways in recent years.
I even meant to mention that but it slipped my mind (though that one isn't really a thing anymore in the same way, they mainly just keep advertising it to drum up the tourist trade)...that is a good point and I never thought of that. Gretna Green, people!
The traditional trans response to this would be to talk about Hijras and traditional trans feminine identities in South East Asia but honestly this approach kinda pisses me off because as far as I can see the Pakistani trans community isn't some alien separate identity with its own history. Trans women in Pakistan have the same transition journeys as the rest of us, use the same terms and have the same history. Pakistan is red here because trans people in Pakistan made it red.Also, one for @Sideways, Pakistan sticks out a bit on the map of places that allow gender self ID as of 2024.
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Lend-Leased by the United States to Brazil to help it prosecute the 1941 Uruguay War against the Nazi-backed Argentine regime.
(Actually, of course, one used by Brazilian forces fighting for the Allies in Italy in OTL).
Just finished the Lithuanian Eurovision national selection and gods damn those people like basketball. This is deeply lithuanian and I kinda love that
Distributed by groups including the Russian-American Fund for Justice, the "Basketball of Death" shirt was distributed extensively in the Anglosphere in advance of the 1996 Basketball World Cup to protest the revocation of Lithuania's ban from international sporting events. Though President Burokevičius had ended the expulsionist policies of his predecessor, Petras Griškevičius, he still maintained Lithuania's status as a single-party dictatorship with extensive use of surveillance, imprisonment, and police brutality, particularly against ethnic minorities and labor organizers.
(h/t @Enigma-Conundrum )