We’ve only gotten anything close to self ID this year, and it came after over a year of a veritable shitfest of political fearmongering against trans people, and the law is still full of bs clauses like “no changing your gender to female in case of war” or “sports organizations can decide for themselves if they want to recognize your gender, and if businesses want to force you to use the wrong bathroom that’s up to them to decide”. And if i look at past court judgements, none of that crap will hold up if anybody has the nerve, time and money to fight through all circuits against it, but it’ll take decades before that happens for every single paragraph of pure nonsense in that law.

I mean, it’s better than what we had before, i’m glad i can finally get my papers in order before the year is over and let me not even begin about the horror stories i’ve heard of some of the psychiatric evaluations you used to have to go through to change your name, but this shit has seriously driven home the point that i’m still nothing but a political football to our legislature.