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20200719003936-being_transgender.org

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 #+title: Being transgender
 
-Since September 25th, 2018, I've been doing [[file:20200718144852-feminizing_hormone_therapy.org][Feminizing hormone therapy]], and it's
-been an overwhelmingly positive experience. It's a slow process, but there is
-absolutely progress.
+I [[file:20210101023555-coming_out.org][came out]] publicly as gender-nonconforming in April 2017, and as [[file:20210101025247-transgender.org][Transgender]]
+in 2018. Since September 25th, 2018, I've been doing [[file:20200718144852-feminizing_hormone_therapy.org][Feminizing hormone therapy]],
+and it's been an overwhelmingly positive experience. It's a slow process, but
+there is absolutely progress.

20200806193233-educating_people_about_transgender_issues.org

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 This is a list of resources to share with friends and family members who want to
 know what [[file:20200719003936-being_transgender.org][Being transgender]] means and what issues you may be dealing with as a
-transgender person.
+[[file:20210101025247-transgender.org][Transgender]] person.
 
 * Books
 - [[file:MiaViolet1961.org][Yes, you are trans enough]] by Mia Violet :: An excellent memoir on Mia's

20200926010452-trans_flag.org

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-#+title: Trans Flag
-
-* Colors
-- Maya Blue :: Hex: =#55CDFC=, RGB: =(85, 205, 252)=, CMYK: =0.662, 0.186, 0, 0.011=
-- White :: Hex: =#FFFFFF=, RGB: =(255, 255, 255)=, CMYK: =0, 0, 0, 0=
-- Amaranth Pink :: Hex: =#F7A8B8=, RGB: =(247, 168, 184)=, CMYK: =0, 0.319, 0.255, 0.031=

20200926010452-transgender_pride_flag.org

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+:PROPERTIES:
+:ID:       d3d212a4-3fbe-4c79-98e8-abffca1c6e9d
+:END:
+#+title: Transgender Pride Flag
+
+Pride flag representing [[file:20210101025247-transgender.org][Transgender]] people.
+
+* Flag :ATTACH:
+
+[[attachment:_20210101_025738screenshot.png]]
+
+* Colors
+- Maya Blue :: Hex: =#55CDFC=, RGB: =(85, 205, 252)=, CMYK: =0.662, 0.186, 0, 0.011=
+- White :: Hex: =#FFFFFF=, RGB: =(255, 255, 255)=, CMYK: =0, 0, 0, 0=
+- Amaranth Pink :: Hex: =#F7A8B8=, RGB: =(247, 168, 184)=, CMYK: =0, 0.319, 0.255, 0.031=
+
+* Emoji
+🏳️‍⚧️
+
+Added to [[https://emojipedia.org/emoji-13.0/][Emoji 13.0]] in 2020.

20210101022512-trans_people_don_t_appear_out_of_thin_air.org

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+#+title: Trans people don't appear out of thin air
+
+[[file:20210101025247-transgender.org][Trans]] people don't just appear out of thin air. They're people with lives prior
+to [[file:20210101023555-coming_out.org][coming out]], not some oddity that has just manifested out of thin air to be
+confounded by.
+
+- Susan Stryker was [[file:SusanStryker2021.org::*Coming Out][finishing her PhD]].

20210101023555-coming_out.org

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+#+title: Coming out
+
+The act of sharing your truth about your sexual orientation or gender identity
+to someone else.

20210101025247-transgender.org

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+#+title: Transgender
+#+roam_alias: Trans
+
+Having a gender identity other than that which was assigned at birth.

SusanStryker2021.org

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+#+TITLE: Second edition transgender history: the roots of today’s revolution
+#+ROAM_KEY: cite:SusanStryker2021
+
+* Prologue
+** Coming Out
+#+begin_quote
+When I [[file:20210101023555-coming_out.org][started living full-time]] as an openly transsexual lesbian woman in San
+Francisco in the early 1990s, I was finishing my PhD in United States history at
+the University of California, Berkeley. Transitioning was something I needed to
+do for my personal sense of well-being, but it wasn’t a great career move.
+However wonderful it was for me to finally feel right about how I presented
+myself to others and how others perceived me, making the transition from living
+as a man to living as a woman had negative effects on my life. Like many other
+transgender women, I spent years being marginally employed because of other
+people’s discomfort, ignorance, and prejudice about me. Transitioning made
+relationships with many friends and relatives more difficult. It made me more
+vulnerable to certain kinds of legal discrimination, and it often made me feel
+unsafe in public.
+#+end_quote