hildegarde

CA allows for birth certificate gender marker changes by self declaration. For $52 and a notary you can get a copy of a new birth certificate with a different gender marker.

Name changes require you to attach a court ordered name change document.

Different parts of the government handle different things. Courts don't do birth certificates.

I don't see how this law would do that.

Existing law requires the court to limit access to these records to specified individuals, including, among others, the minor, the minor’s parents, and their attorneys.

the records currently are very restricted. this law would make it even more so. This would allow minors to change their name without their parents being entitled to that information.

If you choose to share that information about yourself this law won't effect you. This law will stop some people close to you from having access to your records through the court.

Unless I'm missing something this bill won't invalidate passports, but it will protect trans people from transphobic relatives or others.

Only you and your lawyer can access those if this goes into effect.

The rich have more assets and income sources and have staff who do a bunch of financial chicanery to try to hide their tax evasion. Auditing the rich requires significantly more work than the poor.

These decisions are not about doing what makes sense. The IRS is a revenue generator. Spending money on the IRS brings in significantly more money in unpaid taxes than it costs.

The goal is not to do what's best for the government's budget. Its really about ensuring that their criminal friends can continue to get away with it.

You are going to change slowly and gradually once you start HRT. That's the most important thing. Get that started as early as possible.

I would advise you to freeze your sperm before you start HRT, unless you are sure you don't want children. The informed consent documents listed two irreversible changes, sterility and breasts.

I'm about 3 and a half month on HRT. I barely have breast shape at this point. My measurements have not changed enough that my old clothes no longer fit comfortably. You'll have time to adjust to the changes. You'll have plenty of time to gradually upgrade your wardrobe, and learn makeup, there's no need to work these things out in advance.

Delay is fine for everything except the HRT and cryopreservation if applicable. Get that E, sis!

The doctrine is called force majeure. Most contracts have a force majeure clause.

If an external factor makes a contract impossible as agreed, the contract can be made void under force majeure. This is very common, and suddenly applied tariffs would likely be covered by a force majeure clause because neither party were responsible for them.

They make bad small phones that people don't buy because they're bad, then conclude its because people don't buy small phones.

They make phones like the palm palm, the second phone you have to pair to your other phone, for those days when the big phone is too big. Also the battery didn't even last a day. When it doesn't sell they say its because it was small, not the everything else.

What heat source are you using? In my experience induction about matches electric kettles.

Yes, but...

Cooking itself also does this. If you are searing or frying that will also release dangerous particulates. Make sure you have and use a vent hood that vents outside the living space when you cook regardless of fuel.

I can say from personal experience of using every kind of home stove, that gas is both the worst and slowest. Boiling water for my morning coffee is fastest on induction, which takes about half the time as resistive or radiant electric, and gas takes nearly three times longer than that.

Though it might just be the american style of burner that directs the flame away from the center of the pan. I've not yet tried any other kind.

You're either going to have to get one custom ordered or make it yourself. You are not alone. There are other trans christians out there. I've met a few.

People like you do exist. If there are no trans crosses listed for sale, its because there's not enough demand to cover the cost of a production run. Even you admitted you wouldn't want one.

Don't let capitalism get its tendrils so far into your mind that you think that you have to be a customer to exist.

It would be very different. It would be a place without diplomacy. Agreeing to not attack diplomats is the most important prerequisite for diplomacy.

If you can't send someone to talk things out then war is the first and only way for nations to resolve any conflict. I don't think you want to live in that world.

Activism works. Resistance works. People seem to forget this when we have a president who wears a different colored tie. This is why trump is worse at deportations than biden and obama. Its not for lack of trying.

Democratic presidents are smart enough to do the dirty work of the state quietly and with discretion. Which makes them much more effective.

If you know any undocumented people, make sure they know their rights, and how to resist regardless of who is in office.

Well its good you're not a diplomat.