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@likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca

2026-09-23 19:15 UTC

@mayasynth@eldritch.cafe Desolé, je ne parle français sufficiment(?) pour discuter encore en français. 😢 I dwell on this same problem still today despite researching and writing a lengthy Master's thesis in 2017 on the issue of documentation/identification documents (available via my bio). While I specifically focused on my province of #Alberta, #Canada, the issues are universal, while the process or even the ability to make such amendments varies a great deal from jurisdiction to jurisdiction worldwide. Over the past 9 years there seems to he demands for even more extreme 'proof' of identity, and yet the underlying processes that produce early/first identification documents remain unchallenged. The obvious one for us is the "amab" or "afab" -- it is not a scientific process, it is a very brief glance at a single piece of anatomy. Yet the interpretation made by that brief glance is metaphorically carved in titanium on trans people's identities across so many different identification systems. 1/2

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  • @likelyjanlukas@mstdn.ca 2026-09-23 19:24

    @mayasynth@eldritch.cafe And this extends to so many elements on such identification: birthdates may be edtimated, spellings may be transliterated from a completely different writing-symbol system, naming conventions for family or individuals is not universal, and so forth. Yet each jurisdiction demands we "form" ourselves to fit their form, whether a paper form or a digital form, both a point of data entry to systems that propagate well beyond what individuals (even when citizens) have legal access to. This does raise one key difference between T and LGB: we are often easily revealed without consent by such identification systems. Cis LGB people are less likely to experience this particular exclusion from official systems in such a pervasive way. However: the specific oppressions we experience are common across all, and also often are similar to exclusions and discrimination levied against other minorities. 2/3

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