Transaction denied

NICE :0)

"She" likely sounds like a man in part because "she's" actually a dude.

I'm sure there's more to this story.

There used to be...

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Obviously they called their bank on the phone wanting to transfer money from their account, which requires ID verification, so on the phone the customer service rep. couldn't verify the clearly male voice with the female ID on the bank account.
Assuming this was really posted as some "news" article, this is a non-issue and a great example of when people should respond with "who cares?".

If I had to guess- the person was full female including voice and when using voice automated bank services. That is what was 'accepted' by the auto system. Then after operation the automation system rejected the new voice.

Doubtful. From the photo clearly a man pretending to be a woman.

Transgender women are born biological males.

Operation is not necessary to transition. The person registered their bank account under a female name, they still sounded male (which happens when transpeople transition late; and why there is such a hard push to transition earlier than after puberty). Because they had a female name and a male voice was enough to flag the transaction. In fact, this can happen with even cis-people as not all cis-people have strictly feminine or masculine voices based on their biological sex.

Whatever software caught this needs to be removed from the system. The way a person's voice sounds should not be used for account security purposes.

Let that be the first step to eliminating "such a hard push to transition earlier than after puberty".

It's much easier to fix a program than a programmer. The program is only following the biases (intended or otherwise) of the one that programmed it's directives.

It won't do anything to prevent the pushing of the transitioning before or during puberty until the obsession to be passing is overcome by both trans and cis-people; who both believe gender roles to be extremely important in assessing where people do and do not belong.

Programmers don't typical set policy, so the software's owner can decide to remove the code that's doing the voice check.

As far as preventing the pushing of the transitioning before or during puberty, updating the software would be just a step to stop the insanity of permanently altering kids' bodies before they're mature enough to make a decision as life-changing (and incredibly difficult to reverse) as using surgery and chemistry to change their sex.

At those very young ages, kids can be easily swayed by an adult to believe that sexual re-assignment is what they should do. And clearly that adult may or may not have the kids' best interests as their motivation, or may have some agenda, political or otherwise, that is not in the kids' best interests.

It’s making a mountain out of a mole hill. Fixing the tech won’t do anything to prevent anyone desiring trans people to be passing.

Even cis-people appear to demand this. Take Rachel Levine, for example, most of the jokes made at her and trans people expense is that she’s still too manish.

This is actually what encourages passing and the need for transpeople to transition before and during puberty. It’s not an easily overcome thing as reprogramming a flawed machine. It would require an entire cultural shift. Possibly decades or century long.

I understand the reservations of making a child/parent decide when transitioning is appropriate for a pubescent-age teen. I get it. But I’m also firmly against the government being used to restrict access to that opportunity. Especially preventing all access or avenues. We can’t rely on the government to protect people, especially against themselves. That’s a liberal’s way of thinking.

"It’s making a mountain out of a mole hill. Fixing the tech won’t do anything to prevent anyone desiring trans people to be passing."

I think that's a fairly short term attitude. If we're playing the long game, I'd take every win possible. They add up over time.

"Even cis-people appear to demand this. Take Rachel Levine, for example, most of the jokes made at her and trans people expense is that she’s still too manish."

I think that's what people think when they see her. But over time (there I go again) people will become used to people being themselves and appearance will matter less. It may take a long time, but that is the general arc, imo.

"This is actually what encourages passing and the need for transpeople to transition before and during puberty."

Negative. There's absolutely zero need for anyone to transition before puberty. We don't let people drive a car before puberty (well...) but we're going to let them change their sex? That's just nuts. It's actually abuse, imo.

"I understand the reservations of making a child/parent decide when transitioning is appropriate for a pubescent-age teen."

IF a parent and a child decide this together, I would give it more credence. However, there are plenty of folks in that movement who are substantially more radical and would freeze the parents out.

"But I’m also firmly against the government being used to restrict access to that opportunity."

I'm usually against the govt being involved in anything unless absolutely necessary. If it wants to make it possible for this to happen, then that goes along with my belief that the govt's role should be in making the playing field free and equitable. But once the govt actually gets involved in things they shouldn't (i.e. the process) that's when I get worried. And leave tax dollars out of it. Nothing gets people who are against something more riled up than when the govt decides to spend those peoples' money on things they're against.

I agree 100% with the rest of what you said.

Actually most conservatives don't really care. You can call yourself whatever you want as long as you aren't forcing your ideals on other people and their children. In fact there was very little pushback to women doing jobs that were traditionally men's jobs in the past 10 years or so, there was disbelief that it was possible, but no one really stopped them from trying.

Conservatives don’t care about discrimination?

Okay.

Not really. We care about rights and personal freedoms.

Well there is that thing in Africa...

They’re called people.

Calling their bank on the phone likely went to some call center on Hyderabad or Manila. I don’t think they have swallowed the whole woke men can be women and women can be women thing yet.

Trannies are chromosone deniers.

SKILL ISSUE FOR THAT

Good, gay people are pathetic, less reason to be gay