That's not to trivialize the value of $75, but it's objectively more attainable to get $75 every 3 months than it is to bypass a two year waiting list while your will to live slowly dies and you could get gatekept anyway at the end of the list
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @bazzalisk and
So it's a bit more than $75 here if you add everything up but it's still in that area of "affordable if you have some extra income". I think the big difference might be that a lot of trans people in the UK have less money available because of employment discrimination and rent.
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Replying to @dulcedejae @BootlegGirl and
I think you have this view of, like, "UK bad" because of the rhetoric from Prominent British Writers but the reality on the ground is more complicated and I'm not sure if we have it worse on average here than in the US, really.
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Replying to @dulcedejae @bazzalisk and
I've been reliably informed my transition process, which took under two years, would have taken five minimum in the UK, from "decide to transition" to "on HRT, can get letters for surgery, license and passport say F and proper name"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @dulcedejae and
I understand Germany and Norway are similar, it's not just the UK
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @dulcedejae and
The problem as far is I am informed is not the medical procedures but the red tape surrounding it. In Germany for example you need two different psychologists testifying in writing to a court that you are infact trans to just get your name change done.
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Replying to @DerSchwede_nrm @dulcedejae and
just another example of how the US, as a more individualist culture, avoids these kind of problems I went before a transphobic as fck judge for my name change, who literally Mr. Anderson'd me, to the point that the bailiff in a cowboy hat felt bad for me She had to grant it
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @DerSchwede_nrm and
Because my reason wasn't fraudulent, she had to grant the name change and it's binding forever. No psychologists involved. No permits. Coast to coast.
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @DerSchwede_nrm and
Name change even easier in UK. No judge involved, no requirement to have a reason at all.
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That's the English common law and it theoretically does still apply in most US states
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bazzalisk and
I'm not clear if it legally invalidates your former name like a court ordered name change does, though
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