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    1. Emily VanDerWerff  🙋‍♀️‏Verified account @emilyvdw 13 May 2020

      Emily VanDerWerff  🙋‍♀️ Retweeted Gillian Branstetter

      I wake up at night terrified this will happen to me. My wife has my back, but AT THE LEAST, there would be an obituary in my old name if I died tomorrow.https://twitter.com/GBBranstetter/status/1260373611032072192 …

      Emily VanDerWerff  🙋‍♀️ added,

      Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter
      I once spoke to a woman whose wife had recently passed and her in-laws were forcing her to be buried in a suit, hair cut short, and under her deadname. I wish every cis person who read that could understand the sudden sense of horror felt by every trans person who read that.
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    2. Emily VanDerWerff  🙋‍♀️‏Verified account @emilyvdw 13 May 2020

      (I should note in California, my wife gets primary say in my funeral arrangements. Trans people do not have that protection in every state.)

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      Emily VanDerWerff  🙋‍♀️‏Verified account @emilyvdw 13 May 2020

      I must emphasize that you don't need to explain wills to me. I am aware of them. I'm not afraid of being forcibly detransitioned in death because I've never heard of wills. I'm afraid of being forcibly detransitioned in death because I live in a horribly transphobic country. 😘

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        1. Emily VanDerWerff  🙋‍♀️‏Verified account @emilyvdw 13 May 2020

          The system that works for you, a cis person, sometimes actively works against me, and I possess much more power and privilege than nearly every other trans person.

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        2. Liam‏ @CallMeLiam 13 May 2020
          Replying to @emilyvdw

          Have you read Neil Gaiman's Sandman? This comes up as one final indignity heaped on a woman in that story, it's handled as a tragedy but I've heard people say it's still problematic.

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        3. Emily VanDerWerff  🙋‍♀️‏Verified account @emilyvdw 13 May 2020
          Replying to @CallMeLiam

          I mean, I don't love cis people telling stories about us that boil down to "What a hard life they must lead!" Yes, we live hard lives (often), but they are our own, not there for sadness points in some other narrative. (I could never get in to Sandman.)

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        1. Ragnell‏ @Ragnell 14 May 2020
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          I constantly worry about being buried under my parents' religion despite my will. Those only work when you have a good scary as hell lawyer after death.

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