Kathryn.fr
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But it got better towards the end/dinner time. I had to go to DHS officer about food stamps, my other trans friend went with me, and there was this desk guy there. A little back story on him, he is a transphobe/homophobe. The very first day I went it a month ago to renew my card which had no money on it, he clocked me and addressed me as sir the entire time. NOT cool, I thought it was a harmless misgender, happens you know. I was sad, but I remember all day I never got misgendered. But yesterday when I had to go up to him he called me up by going "Hello senor " Right then I knew what he was doing. He knows my gender identity, my preferred pronouns, and my name and kept addressing me out loud by the complete opposite. He called me senor, dude, brother, guy, buddy. Even after I asked him to please, between him and me to use my preferred pronouns. It's potentially dangerous to call me out like that for everyone to hear. He told me to come back next Tuesday to see him about my card, my friend grabbed me a descrimination form because it says in it that they can't descriminate me based on my gender identity. He made it perfectly clear to anyone else in the room that I was just a dude dressed like a lady. Unacceptable. I went back to Outside In and my case manager found me and I told him and now he's going to try to take care of that guy. Then I had a physical so I can get into the housing program and they had check boxes for my gender and such, and I had to put my birth name as well that was cool, but the doctor guy kept calling me "he/his/him" along with calling me Kat or Kathryn, like wtf... insensitive. Then the lady that had to release me was trying to list me in their records as male and doing the same thing. So there is an orientation today for the employee's that they need to fix this stuff. Tday I'm hoping goes a little better.
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