December 10, 2004 8:50 AM GMT
Oh, I´m glad those outlaw days are over. Though, it WAS exciting to take the fast boat to Estonia and wonder if they would give me my pills in the pharmacy...or if they had them in the first place. Exciting highlights were the passport checkings at both ends. I tried to smile and look like my passport, but with less success. I got a bunch of comments from the border guards: "Gee, you HAVE CHANGED", "Don´t you have any other id-card?", "This is not you". "Where did you steel this passport?". I tried to explain that IF I would steel a passport, I would not steel this one...
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Laura
December 10, 2004 3:07 PM GMT
I guess that was one way of checking to see if your transition was changing your look over time. I wonder if there should be a gender ID on those cards, M T F so that way if you were transitioning in either direction you would have a T! Maybe that would help...well...no probably wouldnt... if you had a T then the comments would be "Are you becoming a male or a female?" or "What does the T stand for?" lol
I do think that here in the US which prides itself in words like... life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness its a controlled life, liberity and pursuit. There are so many who want to control your life, give only certain liberties and allow you the pursuit of happiness as long as you do it their way. In all fairness...they say Pursuit of happiness...they didnt mention anything about actually catching it ! lol
December 11, 2004 4:19 AM GMT
That is insane ! Let me see if I got this right...you can only change your name if you get a sex change ? How would a girl ever transition in the work place with a male name ...no offence to those names but usually a male name is hardly close to being a female name making everone look more then twice. Okay...well I pointed out the obvious...hope you can make some changes to that law if you can not change your name until after you have SRS !
December 11, 2004 8:55 AM GMT
I would suggest a temporary neutral name during the transition, such as Kim, used for both boys and girls. I´m sure there are such names in all languages.
Laura
December 11, 2004 8:59 AM GMT
Sandra
It was actually my own fault that I got in such situations. I had started my own HRT but my name change went according to the regular schedule. So, I was much ahead in transitioning, all the time, and that caused the problems just before my name change.
Laura
December 14, 2004 12:01 AM GMT
I've had very good experiences with inhousepharmacy.com and drugstore.com (in the USA).