Kayday

I agree. I just prefer to have something quick and easy to say, rather than qualifying all the possible scenarios with my clarifying question.
This also leaves room for, "oh no, [person] isn't nonbinary, but they use he/they."

When it's about someone else: "Oh, is [trans person] nonbinary? I thought [trans person] used she/he."
When it's about myself: "Using 'she' is fine, thank you."

Adding context: Alpha particles can kill you, and are actually more lethal than gamma because alpha has so much more mass than gamma.
Because of its size though, an alpha particule cannot penetrate your skin. However alpha is incredibly dangerous if you ingest it, giving it direct access to your soft internal organ tissue. When working jobs that had a risk of alpha contamination, we had to run constant air samples and take extra precautions to protect eyes/nose/mouth from an accidental "uptake."
The good news is that alpha is only present really when you're working on the core, or primary loop. This rarely happens outside of refueling outages. Gamma will be the concern the rest of the time.
Beta matters too, but as one might expect, beta is a little beta bitch.

So I used to be a radiation health physics technician in a commercial nuclear plant.
Most field instruments bottom out at 0.2 milliRem/hour. Whenever possible, we wanted areas to be <0.2. if an area was 0.3 or 0.5, we didn't have to take any additional precautions being there because it's still incredibly low. That being said, a lot of man hours and materials are used to turn 0.3-0.9 zones into <0.2 zones.
I don't have the energy to look into these proposed changes, and I doubt they are good purely because of the current administration, but I could see scenarios where not needing to be ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) would save a lot of time and money without meaningfully endangering anyone.

Unless they update their birth certificate or have a passport with their married name. Which would still disenfranchise most of them.

You know, I may be wrong. That's what I was told and have seen repeated. Maybe I'm spreading misinformation without realising 😩

Are you doing 0.5ml injections? That is quite a bit left, but I'm used to seeing a more empty bottle after four 1ml shots.
The contamination is the little pieces of debris from the cap each time you puncture it. When there isn't much left, your needle is drawing from the bottom where they all settle.
Hypothetically if you drew another shot while keeping the tip of the needle just below the surface you may avoid this, but it's probably for the best to just use as directed.
These vials are all prepared the same way with 5ml, regardless of whether you're prescribed 4ml or 2ml. What's left is possibly contaminated, so it isn't of use to anyone at that point.
Fwiw, there isn't a scarcity of this medication, just dumb laws keeping it away from those who need it. In the same way that not finishing your dinner isn't taking away food that might have fed someone else, not emptying your vial isn't taking away treatment from anyone.

The best thing you can do is something.
Most likely once you are on HRT, you will constantly kick yourself for not starting earlier. When I was around 1 year into HRT with C cups, I could still "stealth" as needed. I really doubt you would be making things harder for yourself by starting HRT first.
HRT is for the most part not really an active task; you'll have plenty of time to start laser / voice training before or during HRT.
I understand the concern with not wanting to do things wrong, and the anxiety of feeling awful if you take steps in the incorrect order. Keep in mind that HRT has the added benefit of making a lot of the mental fog clear up - easier to manage.
Good luck

I have a remote job where I mostly interface with the computer, very little human interaction. My boss is supportive, which is all that really matters. I have some shitty coworkers but the worst so far has just been that they avoid talking to me in the already limited capacity we had. My day to day changed very little.

I don't think it's strange, maybe uncommon depending on where you are. One of my (trans woman) best friends is a cishet man. He has said similar things to you in the past, how he has an easier time generally getting along with women and queer people than to other cishet men.
He is an emotionally intelligent person, and is drawn to people who share his interests and level of empathy. This tends to exclude most of the cishet men he knows, but not all.

I know this is a joke.

If every person in the US could handle 2 drinks, every person in the UK would have to drink 9 of the same to keep up.

But the agency also said any restoration would need to comply with President Donald Trump's Executive Order 14168, which requires federal agencies to recognize only two sexes and rejects federal recognition of transgender identities.