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Teknevra lemmy.blahaj.zone Teknevra@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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erin (she/it, kitty meowww meoww) piefed.blahaj.zone erinmeow@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-03-12
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wtf i was read

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Carnelian lemmy.world Carnelian@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-27
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Iirc this has been attempted already in athletic contexts and they had to stop doing it because it turns out that a few percent of cis women end up being “male” regardless of what you test for. This is of course ignoring how unnecessary it is in the first place

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SnarkoPolo lemmy.world SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world
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Small Government!

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Entertainmeonly (she/her) lemmy.blahaj.zone Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-08-17
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How many rape kits are still untested?

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BonsaiBoo lemmy.world BonsaiBoo@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-05-20
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Gattaca got it right

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𝙈𝙞𝙖 quokk.au Quokka@quokk.au
Joined: 2025-06-09
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Iirc this has been attempted already in athletic contexts and they had to stop doing it because it turns out that a few percent of cis women end up being “male” regardless of what you test for. This is of course ignoring how unnecessary it is in the first place

Do we think they care if they hurt a few false positives along the way?

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tyler programming.dev tyler@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Iirc this has been attempted already in athletic contexts and they had to stop doing it because it turns out that a few percent of cis women end up being “male” regardless of what you test for. This is of course ignoring how unnecessary it is in the first place

Yes because gender isn’t binary, unlike what all these morons think.

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Carnelian lemmy.world Carnelian@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-27
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Do we think they care if they hurt a few false positives along the way?

Yeah I mean it’s a pretty huge civil rights issue, again as we continue ignoring the huge civil rights issue inflicted directly against trans people in this hypothetical.

But if you’re a cis woman who was born a woman, assigned woman at birth, all your internal and external organs are typical of the average cis woman, spent your whole life living as a woman, nobody you ever met ever gave it a second thought, you never even heard about “trans” other than a passing Fox news clip insinuating Joe Biden invented it in in 2022, etc….

…then suddenly your state government brings litigation against you for using the women’s room? Because of a “test” that a) has a false positive rate to begin with and b) a significant number of cis women are true positives for anyway?

I feel like you’d have civil rights lawyers throwing themselves at your feet

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Carnelian lemmy.world Carnelian@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-27
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Yes because gender isn’t binary, unlike what all these morons think.

Can’t wait for the headlines! “I was so excited for this bigotry, but then my own daughter tested positive for trans. ):”

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dangling_cat piefed.blahaj.zone dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-06-06
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Wait until they find out more than 40% of people over 70 lost part of their Y chromosomes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_loss_of_chromosome_Y)

Imagine they fail their own test.

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P00ptart lemmy.world P00ptart@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-07-26
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Small Government!

Fiscally responsible! DNA tests for bathroom visits! That's super cheap and worth the cost, right?

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grue lemmy.world grue@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#13 · (edited) Quote Reply

So let me get this straight: they're going to forcibly extract your DNA on a mere accusation?

BRB, reading the instance TOS to see if I'm allowed to say what should happen to the subhumans who try to do this.

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Nouvellalia lemmy.world Nouvellalia@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-16
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How many rape kits are still untested?

Most of them

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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks programming.dev zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-19
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Gattaca got it right

I do like my shin implants...

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MonkderVierte lemmy.zip MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-05-30
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So you do have the money and people for this shit.

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Zirconium lemmy.world Zirconium@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
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But but, the covid vaccine.and lockdowns!

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MalReynolds slrpnk.net MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2023-06-25
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Wait until they find out more than 40% of people over 70 lost part of their Y chromosomes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_loss_of_chromosome_Y) Imagine they fail their own test.

Well that was weird, inconclusive, but weird. Thanks for new info. Guess the Y chromosome is even more fragile than expected.

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Beehaw_Girl beehaw.org Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org
Joined: 2026-06-07
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Wait until they find out more than 40% of people over 70 lost part of their Y chromosomes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_loss_of_chromosome_Y) Imagine they fail their own test.

So more than 40% of 70+year-old men have genetically turned into women?

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DarkFuture lemmy.world DarkFuture@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-11-06
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Imagine focusing on this instead of literally any other real world problems.

Conservatives/regressives are subhuman.

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abbiistabbii piefed.blahaj.zone abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-06-08
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Okay, so I'm going to need a DNA test to go for a piss in Idaho?

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Drusas fedia.io Drusas@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-08-16
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Wait until they find out more than 40% of people over 70 lost part of their Y chromosomes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_loss_of_chromosome_Y) Imagine they fail their own test.

Interesting--thanks for sharing.

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Drusas fedia.io Drusas@fedia.io
Joined: 2024-08-16
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So more than 40% of 70+year-old men have genetically turned into women?

No, they only lose their Y chromosome in a subset of cells.

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Malyca lemmy.zip Malyca@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2026-04-13
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Do we think they care if they hurt a few false positives along the way?

Hurting women is a feature, not a bug

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Berengaria_of_Navarre lemmy.world Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-08-18
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It would be great if taking a shit wasn't officially regarded as an act of sedition.

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Seleni lemmy.world Seleni@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-23
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Small Government!

So small it fits in your pants

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