Hello... :3 Me too. (Mostly. A little variation of course, but overall this is how I identify too.)
Not long ago, I signed up to volunteer at my city's LGBT community center; the online application offered "male" or "female" and no text boxes anywhere in sight. This was rather disquieting, but since there were background checks involved, I figured, "Well, maybe they had to keep the form to just legal information since it's getting sent out to be verified that way, and this isn't representative of how they usually operate." I went there today for the first time because they have a computer room and I was nearby & needed to check something, so figured why not; they required that one sign up for an account and then sign in on a sheet of paper. Options on the paper? M, F, MTF, FTM. And it was mandatory that I use my legal first name in the account and as my password, although I am not okay with that name, and having it basically forced on me again was not at all something that I appreciated. Or something that I had expected out of an LGBT community center, of all possible places. The totally-not-seeing-the-issue attitude of the person signing me up didn't really help either.
But I guess they didn't claim to be an LGBTQ community center, after all. So maybe it was my own fault for getting my hopes up. -_-;;
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Not long ago, I signed up to volunteer at my city's LGBT community center; the online application offered "male" or "female" and no text boxes anywhere in sight. This was rather disquieting, but since there were background checks involved, I figured, "Well, maybe they had to keep the form to just legal information since it's getting sent out to be verified that way, and this isn't representative of how they usually operate." I went there today for the first time because they have a computer room and I was nearby & needed to check something, so figured why not; they required that one sign up for an account and then sign in on a sheet of paper. Options on the paper? M, F, MTF, FTM. And it was mandatory that I use my legal first name in the account and as my password, although I am not okay with that name, and having it basically forced on me again was not at all something that I appreciated. Or something that I had expected out of an LGBT community center, of all possible places. The totally-not-seeing-the-issue attitude of the person signing me up didn't really help either.
But I guess they didn't claim to be an LGBTQ community center, after all. So maybe it was my own fault for getting my hopes up. -_-;;