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[–]MarkTwainiac 17 insightful - 6 fun17 insightful - 5 fun18 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

This is like when TIF Chase Strangio of the ACLU tweeted about having poor credit coz the fact that some of her mail and bills were still in her "deadname" made it too traumatic and triggering for her to collect or look at her mail - and therefore many of her bills went unpaid.

Strangio seemed to think that going online to change her billing details was too much to ask, especially for a poor put-upon trans - the universe should have somehow automatically done this for her when she said "abracadabra I am a man now." She seemed to take the fact that this didn't happen on its own as a sign of the speshul oppression, torments and difficulties that trans people face that make them the worst-off, most marginalized and deeply suffering group in all of human history. (Transpaining.)

Also, as many pointed out at the time, it was strange that Strangio seemed unaware that in this day and age, paperless billing and paying everything online is not only a thing in the USA - it's the norm, especially amongst Strangio's age group.

[–]BEB 9 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

I have always wondered if Strangio became the strangio she is because of her name?

Or did Strangio choose that very apt name when she became a "man"?