If you want to help trans people, and you work in tech: think about how your product handles names and genders. Can users change them? Is it a self-service? Do traces of the old name remain?
Then, fix it. Push back against resistance. Advocate for us.
It won't fix bigotry, or healthcare access, or w/e. But updating our details is a process full of hurdles that we have to go through at a really vulnerable point in our lives, and you can make a small improvement for a large number of us.
@daisy I say this a lot. As a company, I don't care if you put pronouns in your signatures or you add a rainbow to your logo. What I do care about is you've tested how well your databases will update a name change and trained your staff to do it properly and not create needless hurdles.
I'm still pushing on some companies to do this properly 2 years later because they don't realise how important it is for my GRC paper trail and they've never looked at how their databases connect. One place has told me 8 times over as many months they've updated my details yet I still get recipets and marketing under my deadname. I've spent way too much of my transition stressing over this.
The advice I give to others now is always create new accounts and change suppliers because companies don't have proper procedures to change your records reliably. And that's excluding bigots refusing to even process it for you.
Daisy Leigh
Jaelyn 🏳️🌈