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* Business and legal paperwork and language often puts much importance on whether a person is female or male, and exclude and make problems for nonbinary people. | * Business and legal paperwork and language often puts much importance on whether a person is female or male, and exclude and make problems for nonbinary people. | ||
* Passports and identification papers often need a person to put their sex/gender as either female or male. Passports that allow an alternative gender marker, such as X (unspecified), E ([[eunuch]]), O ([[other]]), or T ([[transgender]]), have made problems when the person goes to countries that don't have those, or that mark them in a different way. | * Passports and identification papers often need a person to put their sex/gender as either female or male. Passports that allow an alternative [[gender marker]], such as X (unspecified), E ([[eunuch]]), O ([[other]]), or T ([[transgender]]), have made problems when the person goes to countries that don't have those, or that mark them in a different way. | ||
* In countries that let people put their legal sex/gender as other than female or male, they might not be able to vote, which requires a female or male legal sex/gender. | * In countries that let people put their legal sex/gender as other than female or male, they might not be able to vote, which requires a female or male legal sex/gender. | ||
* Most kinds of paperwork should stop taking record of sex/gender at all. Most businesses don't need that information, because they have better ways of identifying people. Groups that have good reason to mark sex/gender, such as hospitals, should give better options for how to mark it. Birth certificates should stop taking record of [[assigned gender at birth]] in the first place, which would make legal transition easier for all transgender people.<ref>Douglas Quan, "B.C. Human Rights Tribunal to consider striking gender designation from birth certificates." May 25, 2015. ''National Post'' (news). http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/b-c-human-rights-tribunal-to-consider-striking-gender-designation-from-birth-certificates</ref> | * Most kinds of paperwork should stop taking record of sex/gender at all. Most businesses don't need that information, because they have better ways of identifying people. Groups that have good reason to mark sex/gender, such as hospitals, should give better options for how to mark it. Birth certificates should stop taking record of [[assigned gender at birth]] in the first place, which would make legal transition easier for all transgender people.<ref>Douglas Quan, "B.C. Human Rights Tribunal to consider striking gender designation from birth certificates." May 25, 2015. ''National Post'' (news). http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/b-c-human-rights-tribunal-to-consider-striking-gender-designation-from-birth-certificates</ref> | ||
* All paperwork should either give options for [[gender neutral titles]], or not require a person to have a title. | * All paperwork should either give options for [[gender neutral titles]], or not require a person to have a title. | ||
* [[Websites and social networks]] should give users more options about how to put their gender and [[pronouns]]. | * [[Websites and social networks]] should give users more options about how to put their gender and [[pronouns]]. | ||
* Many countries require transgender people to do things that are difficult, impossible, or a violation of their human rights in order to change their [[ | * Many countries require transgender people to do things that are difficult, impossible, or a violation of their human rights in order to change their legal [[gender marker]]s. Many countries require transgender people to be sterilized in order to change their legal gender. Using coercion to sterilize a minority group is part of a human rights violation called eugenics, meant to get rid of that group. Many countries require transgender people to give proof they have had certain kinds of physical transition or surgery in order to change their legal gender. For many transgender people, that kind of physical transition isn't what they want for their body, or isn't possible for them to have enough money for. Nonbinary people don't necessarily want a kind of physical transition that would satisfy these requirements, which were made to make transgender people conform to [[gender binary|binary]] [[cisgender]] ideals. Any person should be allowed to change their legal gender markers without any requirements for physical transition or sterilization. | ||
* Transgender people who want to have a legal or physical transition need to get a [[therapist's letter]] in order to have permission to do much of it. However, many therapists aren't willing to give one to nonbinary people, only to binary transgender people. Nonbinary people should be able to get a therapist's letter with no more difficulty than a binary transgender person. | * Transgender people who want to have a legal or physical transition need to get a [[therapist's letter]] in order to have permission to do much of it. However, many therapists aren't willing to give one to nonbinary people, only to binary transgender people. Nonbinary people should be able to get a therapist's letter with no more difficulty than a binary transgender person. | ||
* Health insurance often covers none or only part of the medical transition of a transgender person. It should cover nearly all. Gender-validating procedures should be given recognition as necessary, not "cosmetic". | * [[Health insurance]] often covers none or only part of the medical transition of a transgender person. It should cover nearly all. Gender-validating procedures should be given recognition as necessary, not "cosmetic". | ||
* It can be difficult for people to get health care if they have had a physical transition, because many doctors haven't had any education on those issues. This makes many problems, ranging from disappointing to life-threatening. Some patients have had to educate their doctors about their own health. Doctors have turned patients away just for being transgender. For example, the [[transgender men|trans man]] Robert Eads, who died in 1999 from untreated ovarian cancer for this reason. Doctors should always be educated about transgender issues and health so that patients know they can trust the knowledge of their doctors, and that they won't be discriminated against or suffer malpractice. | * It can be difficult for people to get health care if they have had a physical transition, because many doctors haven't had any education on those issues. This makes many problems, ranging from disappointing to life-threatening. Some patients have had to educate their doctors about their own health. Doctors have turned patients away just for being transgender. For example, the [[transgender men|trans man]] Robert Eads, who died in 1999 from untreated ovarian cancer for this reason. Doctors should always be educated about transgender issues and health so that patients know they can trust the knowledge of their doctors, and that they won't be discriminated against or suffer malpractice. | ||
* People whose gender expression is in any way gender-nonconforming, especially if feminine, are often victims of violence and hate crimes. This affects trans women of colour more than any other LGBT group. ("98% of all 'transgender' violence was perpetrated specifically against people in the male-to-female spectrum; of the 38 murders of transgender people reported internationally in 2003, 70% were women of color."<ref>Paisley Currah and Shannon Minter. Transgender Equality: A Handbook For Activists And Policymakers. The National LGBTQ Task Force. http://www.thetaskforce.org/static_html/downloads/reports/reports/TransgenderEquality.pdf</ref>) There should be more kinds of protection to prevent this, and to bring justice when it happens. | * People whose gender expression is in any way gender-nonconforming, especially if feminine, are often victims of violence and hate crimes. This affects trans women of colour more than any other LGBT group. ("98% of all 'transgender' violence was perpetrated specifically against people in the male-to-female spectrum; of the 38 murders of transgender people reported internationally in 2003, 70% were women of color."<ref>Paisley Currah and Shannon Minter. Transgender Equality: A Handbook For Activists And Policymakers. The National LGBTQ Task Force. http://www.thetaskforce.org/static_html/downloads/reports/reports/TransgenderEquality.pdf</ref>) There should be more kinds of protection to prevent this, and to bring justice when it happens. | ||
* 40% of homeless youth are [[LGBT]]. There need to be more resources to help LGBT homeless youth. Homeless people who are nonbinary or even binary transgender often face difficult choices when homeless shelters are either for women or for men. Homeless shelters should not turn away homeless people just for being transgender, and should not ask [[queer]] couples to break up in order to use the shelter. Parents should be educated about how throwing out their children is far from the best response to them being LGBT. | * 40% of homeless youth are [[LGBT]]. There need to be more resources to help LGBT homeless youth. Homeless people who are nonbinary or even binary transgender often face difficult choices when homeless shelters are either for women or for men. Homeless shelters should not turn away homeless people just for being transgender, and should not ask [[queer]] couples to break up in order to use the shelter. Parents should be educated about how throwing out their children is far from the best response to them being LGBT. | ||
* It should become standard etiquette when being introduced to someone new to ask for their name ''and'' pronouns, and to give one's own. It should be standard even for [[cisgender]] people and for people whose gender expression looks conventional. Make it standard practice to not assume people's gender or pronouns based on how they look. | * It should become standard etiquette when being introduced to someone new to ask for their name ''and'' [[pronouns]], and to give one's own. It should be standard even for [[cisgender]] people and for people whose gender expression looks conventional. Make it standard practice to not assume people's gender or pronouns based on how they look. | ||
* There should be widespread social recognition that nonbinary people exist, and that female and male aren't the only genders. | * There should be widespread social recognition that nonbinary people exist, and that female and male aren't the only genders. | ||
* There should also be widespread social recognition that [[intersex]] conditions exist, and that female and male aren't the only sexes. There should be no more non-consensual sex reassignment surgery practiced on intersex infants. It should be accepted that some intersex people can be cisgender. | * There should also be widespread social recognition that [[intersex]] conditions exist, and that female and male aren't the only sexes. There should be no more non-consensual sex reassignment surgery practiced on intersex infants. It should be accepted that some intersex people can be cisgender. | ||