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Formerly Thatsridicarus on Soup. Still Thatsridicarus on Tumblr. WARNING: strongly contains Indonesian.

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Personal questions

I started a new job this week and on the official channels I am still listed with my deadname and assigned gender. Meh. Luckily another person with the same name as my legal name started on the same day, so I could be all sneaky and just tell my team, "Ah, that's going to be confusing! Just call me [new masc name], everyone calls me that :)" Everyone caught on and I was pretty happy with how the situation played out.

Fast forward to this morning. Slack pings, I have a message from the team lead:
"Hi [new masc name], can I ask you a personal question?"
Cue panic. OMG. WTF. What do I do? Come out or deflect, come out or deflect? Aaaaaaa!
"Sure, go ahead."
"Yeah, [new masc name], I'm visiting your country for New Years? Can I as a tourist get vaccinated there? My preferred vaccine is not available where I live....." Read More »


Reposted from marbear