One year real-life experience, which can include legally changing one's name, is REQUIRED for surgery. 




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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
My name change took months. My wife, who filed paperwork to change her middle name, got a response in days, despite filing after me.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
This has me so angry. So, so angry. This is straight up deliberate intolerance from the same state that brought you Massive Resistance.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
My judge tried telling me that he might require surgery. I brought the WPATH guidelines and a letter from my therapist with me.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
These aren't required, of course. But as a trans person I guess different due process laws apply to me.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
He then made the Clerk of Court attach the letter from my therapist to my name change order. So my private medical info is now public info.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
Believe it or not, this is only narrowly not a HIPAA violation. But I went with it because I needed so badly to be named Emily.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
Fun fact: to change gender with the VA DMV, you send a form in to their central office, which sends you an approval response in a few weeks.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
You then take this approval to your local DMV. The letter has language that basically reads "call this number if the clerk starts crap."
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
The way state/local institutions treat trans people in this state is so dehumanizing. I feel so bad for this woman.
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The last time I was in Botetourt County, I felt so uncomfortable with the stares I was getting at a Goodwill that I waited in my truck.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski
And now a Virginia school district is spending taxpayer money to fight a trans kid. A KID. What did we do? Why do we get treated like this?
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