Snowflake, Safespace, Screentime and Trailblazer can go save the Whatevers.
Posted on 04/03/2020 1:22:34 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Panama City (AFP) - Panama has implemented gender-based social distancing regulations to help tackle the coronavirus crisis, but the move has raised "dread" among members of the transgender community.
Already under a near total lockdown, Panamanian authorities decreed this week that men could only leave home to go shopping on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, with women allowed to do so on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
No one is allowed out on Sundays.
Before that, Panama had already closed its borders, suspended school classes, banned foreigners from entering the country and imposed a lockdown that left open a two-hour window allowing people to leave their homes to purchase essential items.
But the new measure, which came into effect on Wednesday, has left transgender people worried they will be the targets of discrimination.
Ali, a 25-year-old illustrator who works as a tattoo artist is a transgender man, but his identity card states he's a woman.
"My biggest fear, obviously, is the police, who aren't trained or sensitized to this subject and I don't know what attitude they will take with me," he told AFP.
"I'm 100 percent sure I'll be stopped in the street and seeing as I don't fit the mold ... I don't know if they'll be aggressive. That's what scares me," added Ali.
The Association of New Men and Women of Panama, which defends LGBT+ rights in the Central American country, said the measures had caused "dread."
"There are still police patrols who use the argument that God only created Adam and Eve," association president Ricardo Beteta told AFP. "What does a transgender person do in this situation?"
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
I’ll bet that is a REALLY LARGE group! /s
Because I really don’t care to know, my question was somewhat rhetorical. But thanks for the input anyhow...
Yeah I’m going to lose a lot sleep worrying about the Panama transgender community.
Another FReeper said just substitute the word Trans with Fake and you'll then know.
Only on Feb. 29th
Snowflake, Safespace, Screentime and Trailblazer can go save the Whatevers.
That isn’t a bad idea. DUring the Gas Crisis, you were only allowed out on alternate days, based I believe on your birth year as listed on your driver’s license.
All 2 of them are deeply saddened. That’s ok though! Go to any Target and use any bathroom or dressing room you like!
I don’t remember at all their being restrictions on what days you were able to “go out” or not during the gas crisis; as opposed to restrictions on what day you could buy gasoline - depending on whether the first (or last) number on your license plate was odd or even. Odd number on license plate = you could buy gas on odd-numbered days.
And a Trans Am was a fake muscle car.
Did the chopitoffame sell it on ebay to the addadicktome?
Recycling?
Nobody even notices.
So you're a woman pretending to be a man, and your ID doesn't match? Easy fix: be a woman pretending to be a man who is pretending to be a woman!
Nobody cares about your angst, little drama queen - or king, whatever. We got our own troubles here.
Dang it! I really, REALLY didn’t want to know - but between you and the others, now it’s ingrained in me - not unlike my gender, come to think about it.
Captain, don’t touch your face!
go out to get gas. And that’s right, it was the license plate. I was not a driver yet, my parents would send my older brother out to wait in line for gas.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.