I can not describe the trauma involved with being seated in a Doctor's waiting room, knowing full well someone is going to scream out my very male name. My recent Cyrsti's Condo post on the sudden military's reversal on changing gender markers on a transgender veteran's DD 214. gives me hope I won't have to much longer. As most of you know, I am a trans vet and under VA health care and suddenly the news leaked out the military had changed genders on a few discharge forms. Truthfully, I don't know for sure the steps I need to take to apply to get my 214 changed to stop the madness but I now know the light at the end of the tunnel is not the train! There is a chance!
My only real problem is that I am lazy, I have a very androgynous picture on my drivers license, all my friends and the greatest majority of the world pronouns me correctly-so gender markers are on one of my burners-somewhere. As I have said though, since I am retired on Social Security, I don't have to worry about finding a job as a transgender woman-a huge deal with the wrong gender markers.
Now, I also received this comment:
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Monday, February 2, 2015
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Ditching Good with Better as a Trans Girl
Archive Image from Witches Ball Tom on Left. Ditching good with better has always been a difficult obstacle in my life. I always blame my...
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Thanks to you Maria! Yes, gender markers are almost as big as deal as the physical transition itself. It's a daunting task to go back and attempt to erase all vestiges of one's former gender life. I have read stories of one trans woman who ran into problems (of all places) at her dog's veterinarian. After all, one bigot in a system seeking to make some sort of statement is all you need to jam a wrench in your life.
But all is getting better-in some places. My friend Racquel just celebrated her legal name change this week as did my friend Draco years ago. Here in Ohio though-we are stuck with our birth gender on our birth certificates as I write this. Getting a passport and a new social security card is not impossible either. My problems come with playing with Social Security at all and risk my retirement check.
I am sure all of you who have journeyed down the gender marker route at all probably have different stories depending on where you live. One fact remains-transitioning is not for sissies!