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Mods, can you approve my new account by name of elilla as a member? My old name has been bothering me more than I'd care to admit, & Dreamwidth doesn't allow login name changes without paying. Thanks!

This Sunday was my birthday, and I celebrated it by coming out on social media. My body has changed significantly in these 7 months, but my face not so much; & it was quite intimidating to post this face and assert it's the face of a woman. But at this political juncture. Not hiding is a tremendous relief. Now all I have to do is to have The Talk with my advisor this week, and I finally can get on with my life.

Content warning for transphobia, violence below the line.

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In the U.S., the Trump administration is looking to define gender as immutable, binary and assigned at birth, with genetic testing to resolve disputes. In Brazil, vocal Bolsonaro supporters in various states have already stabbed two transgender women to death and beat a third with a crowbar, while bragging loudly about how their dear Captain will grant them a "faggot hunting season".

Despite worrying inroads of the right-populist Alternativ für Deutschland, Germany remains an oasis of rationality and good sense in these oppressive times. I'm enormously privileged, & I pray to the Gods that after my PhD is done I get to stay there somehow. Brazil never was a fun place to be transgender, but now it's frankly becoming a nightmare.