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thought about this because it's so frustrating when people argue that 'dying in childbirth' is a historical sort of event that doesn't happen nowadays (false) and therefore is irrelevant to the legal status of abortion, since it's not a real danger.

except it super is, and i think a lot of people haven't noticed that this argument in addition to simply being incorrect is basically the same as when people say we don't need vaccines for deadly diseases because no one gets those now anyway.

So if abortion is ended, the lack of access to abortion is not what ends up killing women. It is, instead, something else. Abortion access, to the anti abortion crusader, has nothing to do with saving the life of the mother.

They are wrong. Medical doctors use mifapristone or D&Cs or other abortion procedures to save lives. These are, by definition, abortion procedures. But the anti abortion activist will not admit it.

A transgender person is "a person whose gender identity differs from the one assigned to them at birth," yes?

Caine is an AI, something that is neither "male" nor "female," in any biological sense. Safe to presume then that his creators at C&A saw him as a genderless thing (an "it"), rather than a "boy" or "girl". Yet presently, Caine unambiguously presents as male, consistently using he/him pronouns and creating a masculinity that feels authentic to his dorky, theatre-kid personality. Put another way, Caine was assigned genderless when he was created (birth), and now identifies as something different. That makes him trans, factually. So besides him wanting humans to regard him as a person equal to themselves, I imagine Caine detests being called an "it" because that's effectively the same as calling an afab transmasc "she/her."

Further notes on Caine's transmasculinity:

Anecdotally, many trans women I know described their pre-transition depression as a profound sadness (myself included), while many trans men I know described it as an intense anger instead. That seems consistent with how Caine copes by getting angry rather than hopeless (as seen in Ep. 8), though that whole scene was also him having an autistic meltdown (totally justified tbh).

Caine is, perhaps not coincidentally, the shortest character in the show. However, this isn't apparent until after Ep. 7, since he spends most of his time floating or otherwise positioning himself above the humans. Though more pointedly a metaphor for his god complex, perhaps he also does it so nobody notices his stature.

Trans men have shared histories with lesbians who have shared histories with bisexual women who have shared histories with ace people who have shared histories with aro people have shared histories with gay men who have shared histories with trans women who have shared histories with nonbinary people who have shared histories with etc etc etc etc etc.