I’m scared about what will happen when I go to vote

Thinking of Dee on this difficult day. Hugs and prayers.

I couldn't read past the first para. Such self-indulgent twaddle.

Because she wrote it and she's demonstrably a fuckwit.

Fast forward to my early twenties and, one day in the middle of lockdown, I had my second lightbulb moment when I discovered the term non-binary randomly on Instagram.

Lockdown, the gift that keeps on giving.

Oh you're right.

Here ya go.

I think you've misunderstood.

I did something that makes me truly brave and stunning, particularly as I am one of the most vulnerable on earth. The system is perfectly capable of dealing with my action with minimal effort on my part. But it's NOT FAIR. How can I celebrate my victim status (probably with another cake) if the system doesn't victimise me?

Wah wah wahhhhhh

I made life more difficult for myself and now it's more difficult and I don't like it and it's not faaaaaiiiiiiiir.

What a prat.

The issue here is nothing to do with being non-binary/trans/whatever and everything to do with not changing their passport/driving licence into the correct name.

I do get the feeling Dee’s favourite hobby is being offended.

As a non-binary trans person Dee is also scared of leggings. But then she put them on and it was okay.

Gosh. Move over Malala Yousafzai. You have been pipped to the post in the courage and bravery stakes.

More bad news for D, courtesy of TooMuchTimeOnMyHandsToday.Com, we do the googling so you don’t have to, a free MN service.

Apparently it is a legal requirement to change your driving licence when you change your name by deed poll, so yes D, looks like they ARE out to victimise you just because you are special, because technically you are breaking the law using your old licence.

The bigoted bastards, have you got room for a tattoo to let them know how you feel?

As a non-binary trans person Dee is also scared of leggings. She's made a video about it. But then she put them on and it was okay. Perhaps she could use this experience in other areas of her life.

i feel like Dee will be disappointed when they present the docs and no one cares. A problem entirely of their own making, our own ID is our own problem and I think anyone can use a change of name deed to update their ID docs, whether they are NB or just want a different name.

You have to scroll aaaallll the way down below the cheap ads.

Some highlights:

DOBBINS
23 hours ago
I know how you feel, I've recently decided to identify as being extra-terrestrial and am now discovering how much I am discriminated against.

My passport does not allow for me to say I come from outer-space, and people look at me odd when I say that I'm not from Earth. I too am worried about what will be said when I go to vote, and I am also disappointed at how extra-terrestrials are seeing their existence denied by politicians and used as a political football in this culture war.

HIP O’CRISSAY
16 hours ago

So a story about it never being your fault, guess you never thought it through and it’s easier to just blame everything on anyone but yourself. Self entitlement should never be an acceptable attitude to have, maybe change that before anything else.

DANDY
22 hours ago

Let me help, you're female. Nobody can feel what their sex is, they just are.
When you go to vote your ID will be checked against the register (no, the electoral one you're also on) and then you will enter the booth and vote.

RICH_II
6 hours ago

On both the DVLA website and the UK government website a quick thirty second search shows you can change your name AND gender for FREE (including “non-binary) and you don’t even have to send any supporting documents in. So stop lying saying it’s complicated and expensive, because it isn’t.

ARNOLD HEDGE
16 hours ago

The poll station staff won't care what you think you are. In fact, nobody else does.

Arf! 😃

Nothing says 'smash the patriarchy' like literally upholding a giant golden dick.

It's a "First Person" piece penned by Dee themself.

My bet is on being so self-involved they is barely able to pay attention to the world outside themself.

Dee could have asked any one of the many thousands of UK women who change their names annually how they handled the terribly traumatic voting process.

Why does that whole shite article not know the difference between a polling card and a deed poll?

OK, why can't I see the comments?

Oh wow, didn't realise Metro did comments.

I guess the traditional print Metro readers always were ordinary people quite aware of being compressed against the material reality of their fellow commuters' armpits as they travelled to and from work.

The comments under the article are gold

For some reason this is the part of the piece I'm most disturbed by. WHO gets a celebration cake and doesn't offer any to family or friends? Or even bring in the leftovers for colleagues at work the next day? Why would anyone actually do this?

Hm, could it be someone who is terminally self-involved and as self-centered as a gyroscope?

OK re-reading the piece and two further unintentionally hilarious things stick out:

"What happens if I am turned away [at the polling station] because my ID name doesn’t match my name on the electoral register? Will I then have to out myself and explain my situation in an environment which may not be queer-friendly?"

Oh yeah Dee cos a village hall with the front desk manned by two elderly community volunteers is OBVIOUSLY a highly physically dangerous situation

"Of course, I had to celebrate with my own ‘name day’ cake in the shape of a heart, which I ate in 24 hours by myself."

For some reason this is the part of the piece I'm most disturbed by. WHO gets a celebration cake and doesn't offer any to family or friends? Or even bring in the leftovers for colleagues at work the next day? Why would anyone actually do this?

Women are being stoned in Afghanistan, thrown in concentration camps in China, and gang raped in India, but still, nothing is more traumatic than Dee having to go to a polling booth.

The horror, the horror!