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- The Gender Dysphoria Bible // In depth explanation of the different types of gender dysphoria.
- Trans Voice Help // A community here on blahaj.zone for voice training.
- LGBTQ+ Healthcare Directory // A directory of LGBTQ+ accepting Healthcare providers.
- Trans Resistance Network // A US-based mutual aid organization to help trans people facing state violence and legal discrimination.
- TLDEF's Trans Health Project // Advice about insurance claims for gender affirming healthcare and procedures.
- TransLifeLine's ID change Library // A comprehensive guide to changing your name on any US legal document.
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- The Trevor Project // Web chat, phone call, and text message LGBTQ+ support hotline.
- TransLifeLine // A US/Canada LGBTQ+ phone support hotline service. The US line has Spanish support.
- LGBT Youthline.ca // A Canadian LGBT hotline support service with phone call and web chat support. (4pm - 9:30pm EST)
- 988lifeline // A US only Crisis hotline with phone call, text and web chat support. Dedicated staff for LGBTQIA+ youth 24/7 on phone service, 3pm to 2am EST for text and web chat.
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i'm not done yet but i can give you my thoughts.
'add an e to my given name': would be pronounced the same (at least with a 'good' french pronounciation), would be easy, not to much of a decision and basically okay. maybe it would be too easy for ppl to keep old habits, though?
'pick the name my parents had in mind for me as a girl': not to much of a decision. unfortunately i know a person of that name. would be weird to steal the name.
'pick the name of a distant person you venerate': i got one (1) idea. i am into it. but i again know a person of that name. would be weird.
i had a 'council of (two) friends' come up with a suggestion for naming me: would technically still be a given name. ๐ they had an idea that i basically like. but the overthinking hits. they came up with a shortened version as a name that could stem from at least two diffrent greek names. i'd be staling the long form for my passport from my greek teach! but i wouldn't want to transscribe the modern pronounciation, rather a classical one (sounds better in german majority contexts, i think). here's the real problem: i couldn't find an instance of that name in classical greek texts. ๐ now i am a sad philologist.
maybe it's version one then. since i don't really like having a shortened name as my legal name. that's for friends and family.
while i wrote this i got a new idea to search for the name in #4. (i am out of the field and don't have access to the big corpora anymore). at least i got a lead. :))