I think maybe I could go for some deep fried cheesecake

This cat is using a computer.

Your argument is invalid.

I’m not completely sure why but I wanted to experience my name as something to internalize rather than giving myself full freedom to choose. Probably a combination of knowing I’d be paralyzed with choice and also just feeling that it’s more in line with the cis-normative experience to have a name imposed on you and learn to live in it.

“Pick the name they were planning to give you if…” didn’t work for me since they gave that one to my younger sister. Female versions of my birth name were just way too close to an identity I don’t want, so that was out too. I wasn’t out to my parents at the time I picked a name, so I also didn’t want to just ask them. In the end, I looked through baby name lists for my birth year and picked something at about the same rank in popularity that seemed like one they might have picked.

Oddly enough, that landed me on a stereotypically trans name but I feel I can justifiably claim it’s just coincidence :)

For the middle name, I chose the middle name of my grandmother who I loved and respect deeply - I might have taken her first name as my middle name but it doesn’t flow well with my first, and I had already given it to my daughter anyway.

Carpe jugulum

If the quacks don’t do it the worms will

I’ve got an appointment in a few months. No idea if you’re in the US but, if so, the secret is the same as everything in American health care - money, debt or navigating insane bureaucracy to get insurance to cover it. And, in my case, also traveling a long way to a place that does adult evaluations and scheduling the appointment nearly a year in advance.

Let’s prosecute the others too!

I have a pile like that right now!

Lots of small-ish cities around me, I’ll probably end up going to 2 or 3 separate pride events (last year I made it to 2). This will be my first time fully “out” rather than undercover as an “ally”, so I’m excited!

They sure do seem to have a lot of it

They didn’t take Jan 6

So TIL my parents will be voting for a convicted felon in November 🤦‍♀️

I mean, wasn’t the modern state of Israel invented at least in part so antisemites would have a place to deport them to after it became gauche to kill them?

Stairway to Heaven?

Except when companies do it in a gay way, then it’s against the constitution

Homer tells Barney he’ll strangle Bart if CPS responds to Ned’s call

And this time around he can’t prevent deployment of the national guard

He’s ready for a bit of the old ultra violence

None, it’d be my mom’s money

Seniors are also a lot more likely to even have the option to answer the phone. The rest of us have to work, clean house, feed kids, etc