• emizeko [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    at the end of the census questionnaire, they tell you that it can't be edited once submitted, and present you with the options of "edit questionnaire" and "submit questionnaire". if you click "edit" it just discards all your work and takes you back to the login LMAO

    • wasbappin [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      A few days ago the bitch ass census guy knocked on my door without a mask and stood their for like 5 minutes before he finally fucked off.

      • emizeko [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        our census doorknocker was nice and she had a mask on

        • Vayeate [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          i've interacted with maybe three of them in my life. they're kind but pushy as fuck. i guess they have to be to get results

        • wasbappin [he/him,they/them]
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          4 years ago

          Should we answer our census? I just ignore them because I don't trust the government and I just can't believe anything possibly good could come from me telling them anything.

      • throwawaylemmy [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        You should probably call the census department in your area to let them know about that. I don't think the Census is allowing maskless workers like that.

      • Vayeate [they/them]
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        4 years ago

        it's weird times when i cant even recall if my census guy was wearing a mask and i interacted with him for a good two minutes just a couple days ago. the mask is so normalized these days

      • MichelLouise [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        And for the dumb libs like me who thought “oh come on. They represent such a small portion of the population. Sure, the form not taking them into account is a mistake, but this situation is so rare, you cannot expect them to plan for every cases.“

        Being intersex is a naturally occurring variation in humans, and it isn’t a medical problem — therefore, medical interventions (like surgeries or hormone therapy) on children usually aren’t medically necessary. Being intersex is also more common than most people realize. It’s hard to know exactly how many people are intersex, but estimates suggest that about 1-2 in 100 people born in the U.S. are intersex.

        Source

          • Faith [she/her]
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            4 years ago

            As an intersex person i find this comparison to be the simplest. Or that intersex people are more common than people with green eyes. Most people who are intersex don't even know. Crazy right?

            • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Complete idiot here so please excuse or just ignore. But I didn't know it could be that subtle

              • Faith [she/her]
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                4 years ago

                Well most people have never gotten a karotyping test done and don't know their chromosomes for example. You assume you're XX/XY but you really have no idea. You could be an XX male (assuming you're cis) XXX, XXY etc. and simply not know. Some of your cells could be XX and others could be XY, at the same time! This would define you as intersex. A woman might have internal testicles and never know until she gets an ultrasound, a man could have ovaries and simply not know. You might not find out until puberty, or until you find out you're infertile, until you die and theres an autopsy or you and no one may literally ever know. It's important to mention that intersex is a huge umbrella that includes a ton of different stuff and it can be a bit debated. Some men have all the internal sexual characteristics of a woman, but the external characteristics of a man and some people wouldn't consider that intersex.

                • jabrd [he/him]
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                  4 years ago

                  I’m sorry to ask what feels like a stupid ass and insensitive question while you’re making a great point, but I don’t know where else I’d get the answer and you seem knowledgeable. If you’re a man with internal ovaries, where do the eggs go? Do they not experience a releasing of the eggs once a month through menstruation too? Damn my public school sex ed was weak

                  • Faith [she/her]
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                    4 years ago

                    Well to be graphic one of my friends experiences menstruation and was born with a penis and it can come out of the penis or the anus. I'm not really sure on the details of how.

          • duck [he/him,they/them]
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            4 years ago

            Yeah it's supposedly 1-2% too globally, the problem is that it varies a lot geographically. But it seems pretty accurate where I am, never thought of it that way

        • Shmyt [he/him,any]
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          4 years ago

          That's like the same rate as people with celiacs disease and so many more people consider gluten than consider intersex people; we have our own damn aisles in grocery stores but intersex people are still getting mutilated by doctors.

          • jabrd [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            Please don’t be mad at the gluten free people about this, we didn’t create patriarchy with our inability to eat bread

            • Shmyt [he/him,any]
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              4 years ago

              Nah, gluten free people is me: I'm not mad at me, just disappointed in me. I mean its crazy how quickly we got recognized as a real thing and not just a fad, but in nonlgbt spaces intersex people are just never considered when they are literally just born as intersex people.