#i dont want a gender marker change to fuck with my getting healthcare

[coridallasmultipass]

I am once again begging online shop payment processing companies to allow me to enter a separate name for shipping and separate name for billing!!

It's the same address, I'm just trans and have not legally changed my personal name, but I still prefer to receive mail as my preferred name! Like it's literally my professional name, I do business as my preferred name.

Annoying as fuck, and I don't want to chance my bank rejecting the payment (though I'm sure someone at my bank has put a note to allow it on my account by now, since I've contacted them a couple times before when I realized too late that the billing section didn't let me input another "address/name" section, and they said the payment was fine in those cases.)

Anyway, legal name changes should be free and non-advertised for everyone. Tbh, you should get a free name change every time you file your taxes on time as an incentive for good citizen behaviour. Once I am elected pres-

[jackthundersnow]

This is so fucking sad

Just to clarify for the people sending me hateful shit in the DMs I was a Bernie supporter. I've been a leftist for years and vote progressive in every election I can.I am not a right winger and to try to boot me out of my own party because I'll vote for who I believe will make a fine president is just plain wrong.

I do not understand why I am being mocked, harassed and verbally abused for choosing to vote for Biden. What is the alternative? I know a third party will not win, I know writing in Bernie will not win. If the choice is between Trump and Biden (and it is) I will 100% choose Biden. He has a better platform and is not a maniac trying to dismantle the government from the inside out. He wants a $15 minimum wage, to overturn Citizens United, and make sweeping federal protections for LGBTQ people. I transitioned under Trump, Iive in genuine fear. Transitioning saved my life and I have nightmares about what Trump will do, can he criminalize HRT or SRS? How will getting name changes and gender marker changes be hurt by him and his cronies? How many trans people will be denied healthcare?

If my choices are either Trump, who I KNOW wants me dead or legally defined out of existence, or Biden, a man who could be lying but will at least appoint good people and is not an active threat to me, I'll do what it takes to get him into office.

Everyone replying to me has no alternative. You want to shit on me for making a tough choice but one I believe will improve the country, but what do you genuinely think we need to do instead? Not voting is not an option anymore. Trump or Biden will be president and the idea that so many people who claim to be activated and progressive are ready to let Tump back into office where he will most likely stack the court for our lifetimes is horrific to me. Even if you refuse to believe Biden means a shred of his platform, you know very well what Trump will do.

I don't care if you think I'm a conservative sea lion. I know what is at stake and I want as few people to suffer as possible. A perfect president just is not in our grasp but I would rather take 1 step forward instead of 10 steps back. I have too much to lose to just assume I'm already screwed.

The amount of hatred, ignorance and snideness I've received for evenTRYING to vote for the better person has changed my idea about leftist online spaces. You don't give a fuck about me. You want to be negative and mean and refuse any shred of hope even if it will get people hurt. This isn't a meme to me, people will really die because of this election. I can't be like that because I'll really blow my brains out. If you just want to reply to lie about me or my intentions or bully me into hopelessness you are no friend to me or the progressive movement. I am going to try. I am going to do what I can to reduce harm because that is worth it to me. I'd obviously prefer Sanders, I loved his platform but it didn't happen. I'd rather be disappointed than dead.

I get leftist spaces get critical and we dont' want to compromise on important issues, but I truly see no other way. If there was an actually viable third option I would choose it. I will continue to vote for leftist ideas on all levels of government but that will be worthless with a conservative supreme court. I will vote for a person I agree is not an ideal candidate and even a pretty bad person because that is the most realistic way I see that we can halt this active dismantling of our Democracy.

I am not ashamed of being realistic and doing what I think will minimize harm and maximize progress. I'm Biden2020 and hope for a better candidate in 2024. I am not going to just say I give up because I don't have the privilege of nihilism.