I do have a serious question though - we know that your gender is unimportant for most things. but realizing the fight is about me, even though I'm not a fighter. > I keep a quiet life in a progressive area, so I'm mostly unaffected by the culture war.

You presumably aren't in either camp, so good on you. So, yeah, there is a Culture War of sorts, but it's between the people who want to push other people's buttons and the people who don't think that other people should be able to dress, talk, act and call themselves whatever they wish to. When someone with a neatly trimmed and cultured beard insists that you call him 'her', they're more interested in stirring up controversy than in what they self-identify as. When I address someone as a man and in response get a tantrum for being transphobic it makes me wonder why a man who identifies as a woman still wants to present as a man (and vice-versa, of course). Even if I later learn that the person is a man and not a woman (or vice versa) I'm still going to call the man-looking person 'he' and the woman-looking person 'she'.Р”Р„nd this is where the problem starts - it really doesn't take much for the average female to look masculine or for the average male to look feminine (at least enough to pass as the other gender). My personal method of detection for calling someone 'he' or 'she' is whether they look more like a man or more like a woman. Well, that's the point, isn't it? The 'culture war' isn't as straightforward as all the parties involved would like us to believe it is. > I pass very well, everyone knows me as a woman and most don't know I'm trans. I'm sorry you feel that way and that it depresses you. > it's very tiring to continually hear my existence referred to as a 'culture war fight.' you're not wrong, so I haven't downvoted you, it's just. It certainly reflects the idea that trans people either don't really exist or their existence is something so terrible that children can't be exposed to even the idea of their existence. 'what to teach young children' certainly seems to be an issue, an issue where politicians are sheepishly pretending to do one thing while actually doing another through ambiguity. And as far as politics goes this is certainly also fairly common position to hear from prominent people. IDK what this response is supposed to mean exactly but I certainly have people in my life that think that being 'trans' isn't 'real'. 'LatinX'), access to sex-segregated spaces, participation in sex-segregated sports, what to teach young children, etc. > The political debate is about language changes (e.g. There are a significant number of people that believe that 'being' trans is actually not something of substance, that it is 'all made up'. > The idea of the 'existence' of a trans person is subject to debate. But at Google-scale, this actually has an impact on the real world, and personally I don't feel confident with Google deciding what words are the correct words. My point is, it might seem like a small, inconspicuous change. And news organizations referred to the vicinity by that term. Real-estate listings beckoned prospective tenants to the East Cut. The name soon spilled over into the physical world, too. > The peculiar moniker immediately spread digitally, from hotel sites to dating apps to Uber, which all use GoogleРІР‚в„ўs map data. This spring, it was suddenly rebranded on Google Maps to a name few had heard: the East Cut. > For decades, the district south of downtown and alongside San Francisco Bay here was known as either Rincon Hill, South Beach or South of Market. Google is so large that any stance they take, no matter how minuscule, has immense influence. I think there's a valid concern with this a concern which is not necessarily distilled down to 'big brother' or 'corporate overlords'.

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