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

One more narcissist not voting would be no loss.

I’ll have you know this person is an award winning sex educator who graduated with an MA in Gender, Sexuality and Culture from Birkbeck University last year. Eminently qualified to sit alongside Robin Moira White and Kate Osborne on the first trans advisory panel to Parliament. Let’s hope they manage to cast their vote without too much trauma.

Are you Achromosomal?

I'm chromofluid.

I don't have any. I decided I wanted to be terribly unique so I got rid of them.

I know, I remember when it was all fields round here too!

Well supposedly most of us don't actually know what chromosomes we have because we haven't had them tested.
Or so I've seen claimed.

viques Choosing chromosomes. That's something you couldn't do when I were a lass.

We had girl ones or boy ones. If you ate your greens and drank your milk you grew up to have lady ones or man ones.

Dearie me, how times have changed.

I expect Dee has alphabet chromosomes that Dee chose . ZZ maybe, or QQ, or even QVC , who knows, they will be special though.

Can anyone confirm what chromosomes these special NB people have 'cos I'm a bit confused by it all, being old and all that. Can't be XX or XY, clearly.

Sexual freedom - represented by a giant cock. No sexism here eh?!🙄

Because anything inherently female is seen as a bit crap.

No wonder Dee and co don't want to be women.

The comments section would suggest that you are correct, along with a little gentle teasing.

What an absolute load of self absorbed horse shit. Why didn't didn't just do a postal vote FGS ?

Where's the attention in that though?

And people say that there is no benefit to requiring photo id?

Scared she won’t get the attention she so desperately craves, more like it.

Me, me, me, me!

Yes, same!

Pre-internet we just did things like listen to The Smiths or Joy Division or Tori Amos, or wear black, or write bad poetry, or keep a diary that's excruciatingly embarassing to read 30 years later 😳

Dee D'Poll.

With an apostrophe, like Dee D'Eath.

Should have emailed the council for a postal vote. Problem solved, no need to faff about or get yourself in the news, no need to pay out to get new acceptable ID.

Is 'Dee' short for 'Deed Poll'?

Sorry Dee, I have no sympathy.

I live in N Ireland and we've needed photo ID to vote for decades (and we've had to have photos on our driving licences since the 80s). From my experience, try going to vote in a poling station that has paramilitary heavies standing outside it telling everyone who they want us to vote for and then tell me what feeling scared at a polling station feels like.

But she is not a woman, Dee is a special person, Dee is non binary, which means I believe that all sexual identity markers have disappeared from Dees body. Dee no longer has periods, breasts, a vulva,a vagina, a uterus, Fallopian tubes, ovaries, a clitoris , or a female pelvis. It is pretty amazing, and also just a little bit frightening, how so many hundreds and hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution as a binary species can be removed so completely by a deed poll.

I wonder if the deed poll people are aware of the power they yield?

@MariaLuna You know Mrs Danvers was referring to the use of 'per say', right?

And was being facetious.

Like many trans+ people, I decided to complete a ‘Voter Authority Certificate’. This is an additional free photo ID provided for folks like me.

Remember people Voter Authority Certificates aren't for just anyone without a passport/driving licence/ other photo ID. Oh no no, it's just 'provided' for special people, 'folks like Dee'. Until someone told Dee they didn't need one so having decided to apply for one they decided not to apply for one but now they are scared.

I wouldn't support the return of the death penalty generally but I make an exception for that.

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU??!!

Get thee to a therapist.

So, woman who looks like a woman will have to use ID she failed to change into her new name? But she still looks like a woman so no-one will bat a eyelid.

Why does she think this will be a problem for her again?

@ditalini I have felt all of those things in the past especially as a teenager but the internet didn't exist back then 😂 I'm not one for drawing attention to myself anyway but I dread to think the influence it could have had on me. The world is a confusing place and I think that a lot of people growing up these days think they are special or unique when in fact we are all in the same boat