went to the DMV and got a new picture taken and updated my gender on my ID!!!! in NYS the gender marker is self-reported with no legal schmuff so it was really easy :3

my old ID photo is terrible... so much facial hair... too little head hair... honestly if it weren't for the dysphoria I might just get in trouble for having a viscerally different photo from what I actually look like 😭😭

can't change my name, that's a bit more of an involved legal process... but I'm working on it. in the meantime, this is way way better than nothing.

can't wait for it to arrive :3

and as a reward for reading say hi to Buddy :3

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Hell yeah! I can change my gender marker once with no fee, and then there's a charge, which I don't expect to ever need to pay. I'm technically supposed to destroy my old licenses, but I've got all of them from the last 10 years, and I don't look like I aged at all through the pictures. My beard changed length, and my buzz cut was slightly longer in some, but that's about it. Now, I suddenly have jaw length hair (1 year or growth), no facial hair, and the photo is so overexposed my eyeliner is the only part of my eye you can see besides my irises/pupils, and it makes me look crosseyed as fuck. 🤦‍♀️ Having that F instead of M is huge tho! I had a couple people have to take a second to confirm I'm the person in the photo before I got a new picture, which was always weirdly affirming because it was confirmation that I'd made some some significant progress.

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