I now have a driver's license on my actual name. ☺️
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Come to think of it: Since my #PhDDefense is 1 day before my 1 year #HRT anniversary, this means that I defend my #PhD less than a year into (second) puberty. Anyone else who can make that claim?
(Actually I think there might be a few, but definitely not that many…)
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There still seem to be some issues with getting the teams-link for my #PhDDefense working…
On the other hand I just received news that I can pick up my new driver’s license at the city hall. So I will finally have some form of identity document with my actual name on it. 😊
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Back from the general consulate to order a new passport and ID. It’s still going to take a while but there is one piece of unexpected good news:
I was able to request the new documents with PhD and just have them on hold until I send them my certificate by e-mail. Since I have my defense next Monday, this will just come down to a six, maybe seven, day delay but will in exchange have a note in my documents that I have a PhD.
Now for context: This is an almost exclusively German thing that comes with some de facto perks, that shouldn’t exist but very much did: By several accounts it causes you to be taken more seriously by medical professionals, has simplified border-crossings in the past and similar things. Now some of that may be lost at this point, because they moved it to the back of the ID, making it far less obvious, but in turn eliminating the confusion that some peopl have had to deal with when border agents in other countries didn’t understand the concept and caused more trouble.
So I guess they eliminated the issues at the cost of reducing the perks (that shouldn’t exist in a functional society, but do). 🤷
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I just noticed something when looking through my transition selfies: My shoulders seem so much wider in the first few months than they do now. I’m not sure if this is just a different posture on early and late pictures, but it’s kinda consistent. And I do notice that things tend to slip of my shoulder more commonly today than they used to in the past…
I like it. 😊
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Without any reference to a current event (which makes this a good time to post this): If you think I fucked up in an interaction with you and my apology comes across as insincere: The latter is probably not the case, I just have a very strong instinct that I should explain myself, which can sadly come across as me trying to justify actions (especially if the explanation is very long and the „sorry“ is only at the start or ending), when that is rarely how it is meant. What I actually mean to do there is to show my line of thinking that led to the fuck up to demonstrate the lack of ill intent.
There is a good chance that this is an autism thing, but please believe me when I say, that I only say sorry for things that I’m actually sorry about.
Because as a general rule, I’m not someone backing down to social pressure if I believe that I am in the right and will make that clear when communicating: I will still reach out to attempt to see if there may have been misunderstandings and to see if whatever relationship I have with the person in question can be saved, but I won’t give in on points that I deem to be true. That is what being principled means to me, and what I want people to be able to expect from me.
A big reason why I may still reach out in those cases is that in my experiences most conflicts result from communication fuckups and it always saddens me when that causes friendships or similar to break, even when just looking at it as an outsider, let alone when I’m an involved party.
Now, on the rare occasion that I actually DO have ill intent towards someone (almost exclusively public figures, but there may be exceptions to this rule): You WILL be able to tell! If you have doubts, it’s probably not that!
So: If you are wondering whether I fucked up communicating or tried to avoid blame: It’s probably the former. I know I’m bad at it.
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I guess with my new server an #introduction that I never explicitly wrote on tech.lgbt might be in order.
I’m a cryptographer currently working at TU Eindhoven on cryptographic protocol design and decided during my PhD that what I had experienced for most of my life was gender dysphoria after all and transitioned. I’m out and proud and finally even officially on HRT!
Politically I’m pretty far to the left, but very much reserve (and make use of!) my right to hold opinions that diverge from the general consensus if I deem the consensus bad.
I believe in firm moral principles and that a person’s way of arriving at a conclusion is often much more interesting than the conclusion itself. People who reasoned themselves into a wrong position are often much more interesting than people who arrived at a correct position without reasoning.
I believe that the value of understanding people who are different is commonly overestimated. You shouldn’t need to understand someone to be supportive of them. It is seeing you support someone whom you don’t understand, that will earn you my trust!
I believe that most people are acting in good faith and that most interpersonal conflicts are the result of miscommunication and non-malicious fuck-ups. I therefore believe that it should be possible to talk through most issues that arise between honest actors and really value communication in case of disagreements.
I consider the state of transgender-healthcare in most countries a direct violation of various human-rights and therefore consider DIY-HRT (better term: OpenHRT) and similar DIY treatments a moral imperative and any laws counteracting it unjustifiable in the situation and thus void.
I have some degree of hobbyist interest in law and justice systems (primarily German) and will occasionally post about this. Some of these posts will be in German only. Sorry, but not sorry for that.
I remark that this is a clear-name account and that I am fully aware that I am unambiguously identifiable and fine with that, it is a conscious decision after all.
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I now changed my default “favorite”/“like”-emoji to :Blobhaj_Heart_Trans:, because on Sharkey I can. 😊
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No matter where I am, the hot takes will continue until the revolution improves!
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