Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️⚧️
Senior Writer at The Autopian! A lifelong fan of all things that move, with a soft spot for the Smart Fortwo, the Suzuki RE-5, and aviation. Trans and proud! 🏳️⚧️
You're awesome and beautiful, don't let anyone tell you otherwise. 🩷 mercedes@theautopian.com
- It was good while it lasted. The Social Security Administration is now under orders to stop processing gender marker changes. If you're trans and you didn't update your social security information, it appears the window closed. Please update every other document you can while you still have time!
- EXCLUSIVE: The Social Security Administration has stopped allowing people to make changes to their sex identification with the federal agency, an “emergency” change that was issued on Friday and went into effect “immediately.” Subscribe to Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/social-sec...
- Trans friends, you still have time to update your social security card! This morning, I updated my name and gender on my card without any pushback from my local office. The only proof I used was my driver's license. If you put this off, go to your local SSA office as soon as possible. Good luck! 🩷
- For decades I never took pictures with an open mouth. The reason was embarrassing. 10 of my adult teeth never came in. Last month, I had my baby teeth removed and in 5 months I'll be ready for implants. For now, I have temporary teeth, yet for the first time in my entire life I like my smile. ♥️
- Reposted by Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️⚧️I started HRT at 26 (in 1980) and transitioned socially at 29 (while keeping my teaching job with the Baltimore Public Schools). If I could do it in the Reagan Era, and if you are trans, you can transition, too.
- Reposted by Mercedes Streeter ✈️ 🏳️⚧️Incredible news! Montana’s Supreme Court just affirmed that the state’s gender affirming care ban is likely unconstitutional. This makes the state the first state Supreme Court to rule that trans medical care is protected. This applies REGARDLESS of what the US Supreme Court does.
