🏳️‍⚧️✊🏽💉 Ben Leggiero @BenLeggiero@mastodon.social

I’m Non-Binary!

It’s been been a very long journey. Before I knew what Non-Binary was, I tried calling myself male, later female. Neither felt right. Now I feel happy having figured out this part of myself, and to share it with the world!

I’m also using hormone therapy to shape my body to better match my gender. Specifically, I’m trying to grow breasts! It's something I've wanted my whole adult life! I've been wearing silicone prosthetics all year, and I gotta say, I really dig the way I look!

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only #love can do that.

I've been thinking about what to do with my right hand fingernails for a while, and landed on Non-Binary flag colors! It is pride month after all 😁

Happy pride month, y’all!

Remember:
❤️ You are valid
🧡 Don’t gatekeep
💛 Being “out” is a powerful form of protest against an oppressive society
💚 Don’t erase/silence/diminish queer groups
💙 Corporations only help through actions, not symbology nor words
💜 Together, we're strong

I have purple hair now and I'm LOVING IT

On Saturday I celebrated my first whole year on hormone therapy!

🎊🥳🎉

In 1 year, I went from a competitor flat chest to 33B boobs😲

My hormone levels are fascinating: Estrogen's up a lot, & Testosterone down a lot, but both still in normal feminine & masculine levels, respectively.

Since my goal with this is solely to grow boobs, my Endo & I agreed it's OK to completely drop t-blockers, and introduce Progesterone!

All in all a really successful 1st year! Can't wait to see how the 2nd goes 🥳

Loving the pronouns in the name cards!

#GoogleIO #GoogleIO2021

Tizen is dead! #GoogleIO #GoogleIO2021

Oh heck, automatically hiding deadfaces!

#GoogleIO #GoogleIO2021

Gosh I don't want that time-based map locations feature... Google Maps already hides the place I wanna go half the time 😫😵
Can't imagine how frustrating it'll be for it to hide what I want because that's not what it thinks is important in this minute

#GoogleIO #GoogleIO2021

BURT, LaMDA, MUM, ....
Google's really loving its names this go-around, huh?

#GoogleIO #GoogleIO2021

Really don't like the hokey acting :P

#GoogleIO #GoogleIO2021

All this cool AI stuff, but they still can't remove a wire fence from the foreground of a photo

#GoogleIO #GoogleIO2021

Does the voice they're using for LaMDA sound like Bill Nye to anyone else? 😂

#GoogleIO #GoogleIO2021

Yes! Love the auto-gender-neutralizer!

#GoogleIO

I don't like the small audience... Like, they're clearly 100% there to make Sundar feel good by clapping for him.

#GoogleIO

"Remember this thing that has deeply effected your life and the lives of literally everyone you know? We remember that too"
#GoogleIO

"Remember in-person events?"
#GoogleIO

OMG loving this retro-style intro
#GoogleIO

Happy Google I/O!