Transition update!

[ftmichael]

Yesterday I changed my sex with Social Security! I changed my name with Social Security nearly ten years ago, and it's been nearly six years since I had top surgery, but I never bothered changing my sex with Social Security because the office was a schlep to get to, and it hadn't interfered with anything employment-wise; I wasn't bothered about

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[johnnash]

That's so very exciting in a paperwork sort of way! Congratulations!

[psychokitten76]

Perhaps just as you don't like it when people make assumptions about you, perhaps it would be nice to not assume she's going to be a gossip? Having worked in the Australian equivalent of a Social Security office myself, I can honestly say that a request to change the sex details on someone's record, whilst not something I ever had to process myself, would be pretty ordinary in comparison to some of the other requests and abuse that are encountered on a daily basis!

[ftmichael]

I know she may not gossip, but given her reaction to me, it wouldn't surprise me at all. Not everyone who works in a Social Security office is a gossip! *adjusts post slightly for clarity* I do apologise for making that assumption in my post.

[psychokitten76]

Well, if you'd been my client, I would have been more inclined to tell others what a well-mannered, pleasant and well-organised client you were rather than discuss the nature of your request! It's the nasty people that got talked about most, I think because the staff needed to vent after dealing with them.

It would have been an unusual request IME also, but not "strange" unusual, more "uncommon" unusual :o)

[ftmichael]

That makes sense. :) I do feel for people who have to work with the public all day in any respect, but particularly jobs like the RMV (Registry of Motor Vehicles) or Social Security, where everyone's stressed out and take it out on each other. She was very nice and entirely helpful; she just seemed pretty shell-shocked by this nice young man come to request a sex change. ;) I can't blame her! But it's another +1 for Trans visibility, showing that we're really just folk and not the trashy-daytime-talk-show fodder that so many people expect.

[eoswildcat]

very cool! glad it went smoothly and all too.

[hobbitblue]

Yay for her continuing to be professional while slightly taken aback by the situation, glad it went smoothly. Although I'm half asleep here and was thinking.. "why has he got F on his details, cos he's a guy... oh, wait, yes, right".

[adam_snake]

Sounds like it went well :) and like you said another thing sorted