god it must be nice to just go places and not get misgendered
honestly not sure if “passing privilege” just turned into a dirty word after I heard it a lot when I started transitioning forever ago, or if it just doesn’t get mentioned because i’m the only person I know who doesn’t pass
there’s probably a really long, heated philosophical argument to have about it but really all I want is to pick up my prescriptions without two photo ID checks and a guy going “sir, you can’t pick this medication up for (literally my own name)”
have literally filled half a decent sized sketchbook entirely while waiting in my car for this same pharmacy to figure out every month that I’m not a criminal, i’m just hideous
i have memorized like half the MN driver’s license anti-counterfeiting features just from the number of times someone has asked to see it and scratched at the name and the F marker because they thought I wrote it in myself
the one time I was on painkillers for literally the worst pain of my life I had to go without them for an entire day because the pharmacy wouldn’t help until I got my mom to come in and pretend to be me while I stood there and gave her my personal information to recite to the guy
anyway if you want to fake a minnesota ID, one of the microprint “minnesota”s on the back is deliberately spelled “mennesota” to fuck with counterfeiters
it also fucks with people looking for a reason to deny you service so they apparently have to call the cops and ask them to come check it so they don’t accidentally give estrogen to the wrong person, the ultimate crime
