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Yesterday I went back down to the Daley Center to finalize my name change, from what I was given at birth to what I’ve been using for the last seven months (at work), year and a half (with friends), or fifteen years (in my head). I suppose the timeline is all in how you look at it.
Name change went well, and I’ll post a much expanded retelling later.
For now, I wanted to turn once again to comments that are barely questionable as trolling. That is, comments that are almost certainly posted just to be obnoxious, but there’s the slimmest sliver of a chance the person honestly thinks that way and isn’t intending to be inflammatory. This latest comment was posted to in reference to Misogyny and the Male Gaze:
What I love about trans is this: They were sensitive and easily hurt to begin with, but now they feel they have a reason. The dude’s always bothered you because he doesn’t think like you, but now the way he thinks *directly* deals with you, or so you think.
Get over it. Yes, you are “a pair of tits with a dick”, and lots of people are going to see it that way. Is that cool and fair and right? No. But how many minds are you changing by whining about it? Whining implies that you have no balls.
I mean, cry all you want, but you had your chance, still have your chance to be the man you were born as, so I think the crying is a little weird, forced and irrelevant at this point.
How delightful!
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