Shall we all self id as men?

Thanks Errol. I thought I was imagining it.

It seems odd to default to the capital of the Maldives rather than the YY sex - as surely people are more likely to be typing the latter. Are you sure that’s not just Apple’s excuse for their blatant sexism. 😄

YY just defaulted to yay and then Yuan.

My HR sent me a gender ID questionnaire this week and as I’m gender free I’m now officially transgender according to HR 😂

Am I being paranoid, or does my iPad keep putting a capital m on Male even when I try to change it?

It's assuming you're trying to write Malé, the capital of the Maldives, but it's stupidly missing the accent so it looks like some weird sexist quirk. I've found that mine nowadays sometimes, but not always, changes it momentarily and then back again depending on context.

Oh yay!!! I only bought dresses to assure my daughter that a female can wear dress if they damn well please. But I also told her that in our 20s, I used to make her dad sarongs and he rocked them.

But I am looking forward to not having my opinion dismissed, and If young women do it they really won’t lose opportunities due to the ‘family’ effect. And I would so like to be considered ‘that catch phrase that gets a deletion’ for being my non conforming self.

And maybe people won’t just try to squeeze me off the wide towpath when I am running as if the 3 or 4 of them have entitlement to take over the whole path for their own pleasure.

Yes... I like it.

I’ve been thinking quite seriously about this - and although I’d be willing to legally ID as Male to make a point, I don’t think I could bring myself to use Male toilets and changing rooms, insist on a men’s barber cutting my hair, insist on people use the right pronouns etc., because that may make other people uncomfortable.

I guess it’s my female socialisation/ having consideration for others/ not being a narcissistic, self-entitled arse.

Am I being paranoid, or does my iPad keep putting a capital m on Male even when I try to change it?

the right to wear dresses is so awesome, why would anyone give that up by identifying as male?

I'm afraid you've been sold a pig in a poke, dear. You don't have to identify as anything to wear a dress.

I'm in.
Now people will comment on how amazing I am to be a single parent and what a hero I am. And how awful my ex is for walking away.
Instead of asking why my ex left me and why I cant keep a relationship

Well, we've established that I'm already a man and always have been. So I shall continue to wear my manly dresses - after all, everything belonging to me (A MAN) is male/masculine/manly; from my dresses to my tits and menstruating uterus.
Btw did you know it's called MENstruating because men do it? Silly JKR, bet she didn't know that.

men wearing dresses? who'd a thought

We could start a DIY project and then leave it

yes me too, I was sorely tempted by that too ... or "Marie or call me what you like when I'm not there, I wont be able to stop you, that's how pronouns work"

My male colleagues are debating it/it

I still like "sex-based, like my oppression" but I don't think I'd ever have the ovaries to actually do it

I am a woman and have been sitting on my hands this week since being strongly invited to put my pronouns on my email signature at work. I am mere millimetres away from putting "Marie/he/his/mine"

Somehow, everyone I meet always manages to recognise me as female, even when I don't announce my pronouns.

I also agree that the rules are sex-specific, as demonstrated.

Who was stopping you from wearing a dress?

The idea that women can't wear dresses if they identify as male is... interesting.

Ok, so I'm not balding at the front so I've not quite got the look right but close enough.

Surely this can be dealt with Errol? When you’re shaving off your manbeard of a morning. Not your fault if your manbeard is up on your forehead instead of your chin.

I can now saunter around the office in lycra cycling shorts

In two separate offices, in two separate countries, my team lead has done that - and then, generally, proceeded to strip down to boxers, in the office, and put normal clothes on. I do not know what went through either of their heads, especially when mid-change, they'd decide to wander over and have a conversation with someone.

Now, luckily they were both totally lovely people, so they didn't do any of the monologuing, just apparently existed without any sense of social norms when it came to getting dressed.

I am so looking forward to this. Instead of starting work by switching on my computer and, you know, working, I can now saunter around the office in lycra cycling shorts, stirring a whopping energy drink and leaning over the desks of the pretty young things for a few hours to monologue about my intense training sessions for Ironman, safe in the knowledge that I'm doing exactly what it takes to get promoted.

I can keep my long hair because I'm a middle aged software developer. Ok, so I'm not balding at the front so I've not quite got the look right but close enough.

and drive trucks

I already do that :) and play computer games.

I tell you though, they're going to have to do some work on the average sizes of things in the men's section - my 5' tall, H cup body should put the cat amongst the pigeons when it comes to standard sizes :)

Well I love gaming, watching motorsports and hate musicals. Will that do?
I'm not cutting my hair though.
I do have the ability to clear a wide space around me due to my toxic IBS farts.
DH does pretty much all the domestic stuff nowadays too.