As a westerner living in Asia, I much prefer a Japanese funeral train over a Chinese one where everyone is playing phone games without headphones
But westerners don't like Japanese culture. They like icons of Japanese culture. Actually living there and navigating social situations can be very difficult compared to China. Korea too... Neoconfucianism is disgusting to me. Chinese people are way more welcoming, helpful, and easy to be friends with. Just also noisy 😆
As an overseas resident, this is quite frightening. Look at the bigger picture. They've recently mentioned invalidating the passports of overseas residents, in regards to Charlie Kirk Facebook posts.
It's maybe not about trans people; it's maybe about invalidating passports by forcing a binary choice and then flagging computer errors.
Imagine if they had some other other binary (or narrowly defined range ) choices on there, like political party or race or religion. At some future point they call all members of some subset "terrorists" and prevent them from leaving.
I don't agree with the change, and I don't see why your private parts should determine whether you can travel. However, I'm confused by the headline after reading an article about this
The article says they simply must make a binary choice on documents. But the headline says they are banned from travel.
Can't they simply choose whatever box will get them their passport? Are they actually banned? Is the headline alarmist? (Even in the best case, I am very sure this will cause a lot of hassle for this poor minority group that gets repeatedly treated like a political football)
I wish someone would throw pie at Steven Miller.. Pie shaped like a bullet