u/CosmosSakura

I know very few transgender women post Johnson who can get HRT both private or public, if they do it's usually an uphill medical battle. Real transgender allies understand this and will not treat you any differently because a system has failed you due to an ongoing system collapse that will be remembered. Politicians want us to forget that us and allies had to fight for what we had so they can pull it all away without us knowing what to do. I think some of us are too young to really remember periods under people like Thatcher who also saw mass walk backs of LGBT rights. But we stood, we lived and we saw things get better again. We're all suffering and that includes much older transgender people, but systems built on violence and hate cannibalise themselves. Any system that requires a new person to be hurt can only end with everyone on life support. So don't beat yourself up that you can't afford HRT when other people got it at 19 because it's the people in power who failed you. We're all in the boat together and we will all fight together because a world without trans rights is one without human rights.

I've done a job application for Tesco. I work in IT but that's dead so I'm forced to scrape the bucket for anything I can get. I've applied there before using identical information and had no issues other than certain interview staff giving me negative looks. Currently doing a third application and everything is the same until the recent bathrooms ruling. I get a phone call from the person handling recruitments. To continue my process I have to log into the job portal and change all of my information to my birth sex and details. I disclosed I'm transgender but nothing there indicates anything beyond a yes or no statement about my gender anymore. I've gotten further in the process before without this issue ever coming up so this is the only thing I can see that changed. The justification is that my passport does not use my prefered name and does not have a female gender marker. This has been mentioned previously but was always resolved with a quick conversation stating those are my prefered details. This would happen immediately after the interview with no changes expected on my end (I don't know if they altered data on the back end after), I've not even had my application fully reviewed and I'm being required to change it all.

I'm not shocked, I knew the idea that corporations would make all spaces joint sex was a joke because the ruling isn't designed for legitimate enforcement, it's designed to target and bully.