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Welcome, Josephine! I also have to inject. It's annoying to stab myself once a week, but it's the safer and easier method for me. Just to give you a head's up, you will get a burst of hormones and they will slowly fade until your next injection. Expect your emotions to ramp up the first day or so after injecting. My bestie tells me that it's like I'm having my period every week!That sounds like quite a trial.
Worth it though! I had to learn how to deal with it and I spent (coincidentally) the last few years learning about emotion regulation. I still feel the fluctuations and cry often at small things, but it doesn't cripple me like it did initially.
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Oh, congrats! Getting my hormones on the right track took me literal years, and injections were in the end the answer. They slap. <3
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I hate to bring in bad news here, but I've had confirmation that some federal employees are confiscating passports if you go in for name change stuff. Pass it on and be careful.
Yeah I meant to post about that a day or so ago, but had a mini-breakdown instead~ yaaaaaay.
I hate to bring in bad news here, but I've had confirmation that some federal employees are confiscating passports if you go in for name change stuff. Pass it on and be careful.
...well.
Thats incredibly illegal.
I hate to bring in bad news here, but I've had confirmation that some federal employees are confiscating passports if you go in for name change stuff. Pass it on and be careful....well.
Thats incredibly illegal.
Sadly, it's not, or at least it's "technically" not. It's part of Trump's EO banning official government documentation that doesn't match AGAB. Any documents that don't meet his new specifications are to be confiscated.
Sadly, it's not, or at least it's "technically" not. It's part of Trump's EO banning official government documentation that doesn't match AGAB. Any documents that don't meet his new specifications are to be confiscated.I hate to bring in bad news here, but I've had confirmation that some federal employees are confiscating passports if you go in for name change stuff. Pass it on and be careful....well.
Thats incredibly illegal.
It still COULD be a 4th amendment violation...not sure on that though.
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Passports are technically federal property, so. It's a whole thing and may well be legal. Definitely infuriating. Just take care.
It's going to be challenged in the courts. There's no way that this wouldn't throw things into chaos. It would mean that some people are allowed to get a passport and not others based on the state they were born in. I'm in the process of changing my birth certificate. I know many who have. There are states that don't allow for it. I have no idea how the SCROTUS would rule, but allowing it to stand would throw things into chaos for people. It would impact intersex people as well. It could also throw things off if parents just decide to put gender neutral on a birth certificate at birth.
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The issue is that causing chaos is at least in part the intent of the current admin.
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Some apparent good (if not terribly big) news from Poland.
Until now, transitioning legally (amending id and other documents) in Poland, required a rather ridiculous process of suing your parents...
Guh. Ask Gorbacz if you want more informed details about that legal contortion, he's the lawyer...
The Minister Of Justice (who also was Attorney General, a very stupid and dangerous combination) of the previous, socially ultra-conservative party, to make the matter worse, sent a request to Supreme Court to decide if the transitioning person should also sue legal spouse (if married) and their children, to make the deal even worse for those who decide to transition.
When the government changed in late 2023, the new Minster Of Justice wanted to withdraw the request, but the Supreme Court refused and kept the case...
And now, the Supreme Court allegedly issued an unexpected verdict that the legal aspect of transition should not involve lawsuit at all, merely a non-contentious court proceedings used to (if I understood that part correctly, I am not a lawyer) correct documents.
Notably, the Supreme Court allegedly noted that in light of growing public awareness of transsexuality, it should be a temporary solution until properly regulated through an actual law in the future.
That's very unexpected and good news!
Yay!
Some good news for once.
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Today, I'm mailing off the paperwork required to change my birth certificate to match my legal name and correct gender. I'm so worried that I screwed up the paperwork and it will be denied. I'm also now wrestling with the fact that, as soon as this goes through, if my step mom find out (and she probably will because she keeps up on genealogy stuff) that I will not see my immediate family again, with the exception of my brother. This is definitely another one-way trip in my journey. It's terrifying, but it's also what I need to do.
Yes, even in our 50s, we want to be loved and accepted by our parents.
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I hope it works out well for you. I fear I've already crossed that point of no return myself a few years ago, outside of some nasty letters.
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AUGH! PEOPLE! SO MANY PEOPLE! APPEARING OUT OF NOWHERE! AUGH!
AUGH! PEOPLE! SO MANY PEOPLE! APPEARING OUT OF NOWHERE! AUGH!
It took me all day to realize that you were talking about Transgender Day of Visiblity! I even spent the day in a few AMAs and it still didn't dawn on me until 1030 PM. I feel dumb.
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Pour one out for the UK, in mourning.
Goddesses dammit, I hardly needed more bad news from the world these days. >:(
If I could find a way to retreat to a cottage in the woods with a Maleficent-style wall of thorns, I would, but that's sadly not a realistic option for my foreseeable. Gah!
*Take breath, tries to set shoulders back, chin up.* The struggle continues; stay safe out there, everyone.
Digging just a tiny bit deeper, it looks like it was a narrow ruling and poorly worded for its stated intentions - which are, arguably, frightfully naive even if one were inclined to read them more generously than I am.
Nought to do but keep an eye open and not let it take up too much room in my thoughts.
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It may have been a narrow ruling, but it can still have a huge impact on the safety of trans people. That's especially true because the people who fought against equal rights for trans people are funded by JK Rowling, who has a lot of money. They are claiming victory right now.
Oh, I know. I was/am trying to cling desperately to a shred of silver lining, because it was driving me frantic all day. I wasn't seeing anything in the usual spaces I hang out online calling out this - words to describe this obscene parody fail me. Some of us are shell-shocked, and our supporters and allies, that we rely on for a bit of breathing room and space to be heard...?
As to the bloody court, like I said, "naive" is putting it much too kindly: mealy-mouthed, rank cowardice and capitulation to hateful nonsense is closer to it, and hardly exhausts my reserve of invective.
At least I see that Autostraddle's got a short essay by Morgan M. Page now, working through her feelings on being declared, de facto, "Illegally Female," that hits way too close to home.
I wish I had something happier to share with the thread.
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It was definitely a victory in the fact that only TERFs were allowed to give their side of things. Trans people were not given the opportunity. That tells me where the court is leaning for future trans issues.
Quite. How anyone thought that was reasonable is mind-boggling. Then again, this is the country that doesn't let environmental protesters mention climate crises in their defense in court, so not expecting anything better in relation to other subjects conservatives freak out about is probably the deeply distressing right call.
As I understand it, there's a great deal of cross-fertilization between anti-trans groups on either side of the pond and various far-right nutjobs both singly and organizationally, and I'm not sure what we can do to amplify and support the good but - I can only imagine - heart-breaking work folks do tracking and revealing those links.
Going to try to hold on to the spaces I know that are enthusiastically trans-friendly, and see what I can do to encourage them.
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Speaking of being enthusiastically trans-friendly, our space is one, and I've cleared all the comments here that were flagged for baiting.
Just to be very clear on this, none of the comments flagged here were baiting. The LGBTQIA+ community, of which I am also a part of, is 20000% allowed to express their concern of a threat to our livelihood in a thread literally created for the LGBTQIA+ gamers in our space. Anyone who continues to flag posts by marginalized people simply for calmly expressing their concern about their livelihood being threatened will receive a warning from me. No one is baiting anything by existing.
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It's been a while since we've had people in here flagging posts for being pro-LGBTQ. Thank you for cleaning house. I wish that it wasn't needed.
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I've got your back. If it happens again, I'll treat it like our regular suspension process (First warning = 24hr account suspension, Second warning = 72hr account suspension, Third warning = 1 week account suspension, Fourth warning = banned).
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No one is baiting anything by existing.
I wish my state governor and national president felt the same way.
I'm not going to lie. I AM TERRIFIED by what is happening in the country I used to love.
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No one is baiting anything by existing.I wish my state governor and national president felt the same way.
I'm not going to lie. I AM TERRIFIED by what is happening in the country I used to love.
I also wish that. Things are very hard for us right now, but you always have a safe space here, and I work hard to keep it that way.
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For what it's worth, I do think we're already seeing the backlash starting to materialize against this in America, and I hope it starts to hit in the UK, too. Montana's strong shutdown of those anti-trans bills gives me hope.
Really, they're just reactionary losers who get reflexively indignant when the world moves faster than them. They haven't considered that protecting their egos here, clinging to what they know, means gambling trans people's actual lives.
Mainstream transphobes have given the mask-off transphobes a lot of political power now. But the transphobes in power aren't mainstream. They aren't passive and lazy but vaguely "well-meaning". The transphobes in power know what these policies will do, know people will die, and they want that.
I think, in the US, you can see mainstream transphobia starting to trip on its own feet. None of those "centrists" actually wanted the excesses transphobic laws lead to. It's infuriating that they'll act like this isn't what they voted but, but I do believe a lot of them are going to start getting cold feet now that they don't get to feel like the underdogs anymore. Cultural transphobia isn't sustainable in the United States anymore. I hope the same holds true for the United Kingdom.