🏳️‍⚧️✊🏽 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.

Here's the Wikipedia discussion in question:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Training_bra#Training_bra_for_adults

I'm trying to update the Wikipedia page Training Bra with gender-inclusive language. However, they say I need some secondary sources to back me up.

I'm 30, AMAB, & Non-Binary. I'm taking hormones to grow boobs, and as such, I have to wear a bra for padding and to get used to it for when I eventually need it for support.

It would mean a lot to me if anyone here put out a toot, blog post, or anything else I can link to, showing that I'm not the only adult who needs bras in this way. Thank you!!

Good UI/UX is important!!

Citibank lost half a billion dollars for to confusing UI/UX

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/citibank-just-got-a-500-million-lesson-in-the-importance-of-ui-design/

Today's project: this pun mug!
Blame @rose 😂💜

https://www.redbubble.com/i/mug/Mug1-Chip-by-BenLeggiero/70799576.9Q0AD?asc=u

What the heck?! Only accepts my actual real phone number as a password?! AND THEN STORES THAT SO THEY CAN CALL ME?!

That's public info!!!

Update 2: they said they don't support Non-Binary options, and told me to amend the documents myself!

Also, they phrased that as "out forms have not been updated to reflect “binary” yet." 🤣💜

Absolutely love watching this process 😍

https://youtu.be/5AM4iSQCeUM

Update 1: The benefits company returned me a quote, which had this at the top. Gotta wonder if they made an assumption, or if placing a null/unrecognized sex into their system causes it to default to male

Time for Day 1 Paperwork! 🎊

I had to change how this spreadsheet handles data validation to put my legal sex into it lol.

Can't wait to see how systems handle it after I send it back 🤣

Really confused why this is even here. Why do they need to know? If it's for statistics, why is this the only such field?

Today's incomplete gender selector courtesy of Statista!

Gotta love living on the divide

Biden isn't the best. I would've preferred Bernie, whom I voted for in the primaries. Biden, however, at least seems to speak the right speeches, and has hired the right people, to foster a society which might treat me like a person, rather than the one Trump fostered which dehumanizes me and tries to wring out as much profit from me at it can before killing me. I have hope for the future once again.

Trump is out and Biden is in!! 🎉🥳🎊💃

Now I can safely return to disliking Biden without seeming like a fascist.

*kneels for the anthem*