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I AM TRYING FOR THE TRANSGENDER REPRESENTATIVE
Yumitoko

Here's my unique fact about being Transgendered:
The term transgender is an adjective, not a verb. biggrin
Please read up about it here and here to avoid causing offence:
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In my country you have to wait at least just over 1-3 years to be seen by a gender clinic, waiting times are increasing. Steep considering minimum times are meant to be 16 weeks by NHS targets and with gender dysphoria causing many to self harm or commit suicide.

To get a GRC, you have to go through a gender clinic to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, then you have to get your gender to be assessed by a panel of judges to have lived as your gender for 2 years with proof, they assess if you are trans enough for your GRC. At that point you may have been waiting years to get into a GIC and spent at least 1-2 years with the GIC already. It is possible to be deemed not trans enough. sad

Non-binary identities are not recognised by the gender clicincs or the GRA. (The right to have gender neutral passports was just denied by the high courts! )
There have been people who have been lobbying to get it changed for years but we face awful discrimination and kickback from the likes of people I can't actually mention without soquili potentially being targeted by trolls. It's a long list but I'm not going to post it here because it is not really safe to mention it on open forums as they go searching for it. /:

GRA 2004

(Side note: Sparkle, the UK's only transgender specific pride event is held on my home city.)

I've got so many more facts to give but they are not happy ones so I hoped you enjoyed about learning the facts of what we face (at least here in the U.K.) and correct terminology.


Since you asked: Pandemisexual(, even though pan, bi and aces face a lot of erasure and it sucks, it's cool that there are people who understand. ) My romantic prefs and sexual ones are separate from each other so I just bring it together under that one term. It does seem quite at odds with each other, Panromanticism vs Grey Ace (more specifically Demisexual).

I AM TRYING FOR THE ASEXUALITY REPRESENTATIVE
Excited Apathy

Here's my unique fact about Asexuality: It's unfortunately quite easy to feel "broken" if you're in the ace spectrum, thanks to a general lack of knowledge about asexuality and media portrayals of it. Personal example: I didn't come across a description of demisexuality until I was nearly 30!

I AM TRYING FOR THE PANSEXUALITY REPRESENTATIVE
Mewsings of An Angel

Here's my unique fact about Pansexuality: The word “pansexual” was first coined by Sigmund Freud in the early-to-mid 1900's, but with a very different meaning than how we now use the word. Freud defined pansexuality as how sexual energy and desire is the basis for all human interaction in life.

I AM TRYING FOR THE BISEXUALITY REPRESENTATIVE
lysia_nyteblade

Here's my unique fact about Bisexuality: According to the online etymology dictionary, the word bisexual can be traced back to 1824. However, back then its definition was slightly different: It meant "having both sexes in one being; hermaphroditic," and didn't come to its current meaning — "attracted to both sexes" — until 1914.

I AM TRYING FOR THE TRANSGENDER REPRESENTATIVE
Niyaru Delacroix

Here's my unique fact about being Transgendered: According to this website - there are only 18 states that have laws protecting transgender people. As if that isn't bad enough, there is another fact stating 26% have lost their job due to their identity and 50% admitted to harassment in the work place.
This makes me pretty sad because I thought things were getting better, a lot more people are coming out but I guess I didn't know it all. It makes me wonder just how blind I've been. I could have looked up information on this and been more help a few years back. This website has quite a few facts that make me really sad. I had no idea. I think I'm going to do more research on all of it just to be able to understand more.

I AM TRYING FOR THE BISEXUALITY REPRESENTATIVE
Cheyriddle4

Here's my unique fact about Bisexuality: The Bisexual flag was designed by Michael Page and wasn't unveiled til 1998.

I AM TRYING FOR THE LGTBQ REPRESENTATIVE
UsernameGoesHere Kaya Wolf Moon

Here's my unique fact about the LGTBQIAP+ Community as a whole: The first documented instance of gender ambiguity among American colonists was recorded in a Virginia Court in 1629. In the case, the governor declared that a servant by the name of Thomas/Thomasine Hall was both "a man and a woman" and was made to wear clothing pieces of each sex.