Sooo...you make a strong case you've done quite a lot, probably more than your fair share, making the feeling of guilt irrational and misplaced? :)

I assumed they planned to bring in a new actor for an agent newly promoted to 007.

It's obviously not satire because a satirist would think that's too ridiculous even for a caricature of racists.

I'm pretty sure I've seen plenty of cases of straight cis women catching it also for being mistake for trans women. Because they're so very good at detecting trans people...

Best wishes with that. Get well soon.

Yes, that just looks like a more confusing version of what they have for the flu. For a more contagious and more dangerous virus. Despite there being plenty of antivax nonsense about flu also.

Dr. Tran is emphasizing both. Pretty clearly. This thread started with criticizing the incongruency of not masking while in an area with sick people, while also praising the NY actions to encourage vaccination.

There's all sorts of things another right-winger might dislike about Kirk's comments that would make them think he makes a good sacrifice - they disagree about all sorts of things. Not religious enough, not anti-gay enough, not pro-Trump enough, who knows. Mere opportunity may have been it.

No reason? I was falling into assumptions it was because of systemic racism, misogyny, capitalist greed, and various other irrationality and bigotry?

Especially, but not only, conservatives. IME treating kids as people is deeply unpopular.

Is it? Sounds like an attempt to stop bigots from denying services based on gender.

I didn't. I suggested transphobes dug it up from some specific place like an org trying to be sensitive to people under stress.

Someone else linked articles indicating it was Wisconsin Democrats implementing gender neutral legal protections for IVF procedures.

I suspect it's specifically about medical documentation like "birthing person", or just from some organization dealing specifically with pregnant trans people.

Most likely it's from an organization specifically dealing with pregnant transgender people. Or possibly some guidance on medical documentation somewhere, which is where "birthing person" came from.