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piefed.blahaj.zone

I recently had to attend some course at work. Everyone was required to introduce themselves with their name and a single word that would describe them, starting with the first letter of their name. Like: ā€œMy name is Chris and I’m compassionateā€œ
Of course my name starts with a T šŸ¤¦ā€ā™€ļø
I was last in line and all I could think was ā€œdon’t say trans, don’t say transā€
Ended up with something lame like ā€œtechnicalā€ šŸ˜’

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This sort of thing happened so much when I was closeted. Like I spent so much bandwidth trying to not just blurt out that I was a girl.

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Having to put your legal name on a form even though you publicly transitioned years ago and didn't even use that name for most of your life.

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If they can’t, I probably won’t stand a chance

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Lily
lemmy.zip

I feel targeted 🫣 I have some ideas but I feel I'm missing something. Like there was a name I can't remember from something I watched or read that influenced and would be right.

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