Tina's spookporium

Not actually spooky, just kinda weird and vaguely cute.

[sir-libearian]

“But Artemis Fowl problematic”

Yes, and that was the fucking point. Especially in book one, he was the villain. He did bad things for mostly bad reasons. He was  well written and sometimes sympathetic, he had his doubts about what he was doing, but he was undeniably 100% the villain of book one.

And if you take that away, and start out with him as a mostly good person, not only do you make him much less interesting, you remove Artemis’s growth and redemption. Some of the deeply emotional and meaningful moments of the later books wouldn’t mean anything at all if Artemis doesn’t start off as a terrible person with tiny glimmers of hope.

At the end of book two, arguably one of the most significant moments is Holly doing this.  “Captain Short plucked a gold coin from her belt, flicking it fifty feet into the moonlit sky. With one fluid movement, she brought her weapon up and loosed a single blast… …Holly held out her hand, revealing the still raw scar on her finger. “If it wasn’t for you, I would have missed altogether…..“You keep it, to remind you.”

“To remind me?”

Holly stared at him frankly. “To remind you that deep beneath the layers of deviousness, you have a spark of decency. Perhaps you could blow on that spark occasionally.”

Artemis closed his fingers around the coin. It was warm against his palm.

“Yes, perhaps.””

That scene would mean absolutely nothing, might not even be includable, is Artemis were not a problematic brat. Another meaningful scene, Artemis begging to save Butler’s life, not for gain but because he loves Butler like a second father, would mean jack all if Artemis were emotionally open and less selfish.

The fear, at the end of the eternity code, that losing his memories will erase the emotional growth he has made, what happens to that? Or the gut wrenching realization in the epilogue and start of book four that yes, almost all of his progress did get erased along with his memories. And though we get much of his progress back by the end of book four, there is still the strong sense that we still aren’t where we were pre-memory wipe.

I could continue like this for all the books, pointing out how Artemis’s growth from terrible villain, to major brat, to a reasonably good person is one of the huge, important, overreaching plot arcs through the whole series. It’s part of why I absolutely love the books. 

I can not see any version of the movies without this plot line, this slow growth and backtracking and eventually redemption as complete or even the same story. So yeah, book one Artemis is an utter brat of a villain. But you can’t erase that. Because that’s the entire fucking point of the series as a whole.

[trainwreckbisexual]

ppl keep going back to the definiton of dysphoria and miss the point that it's an illness and no definition of any illness describes a condition as well as the diagnosis criteria. which is why dysphoria being distressful is so important to understand. yes it's caused by a divide between your gender and your body but it is not the divide itself. it has to be an Issue to be an illness. dysphoria is an illness. being trans is not.

yep

[bisexualpiratequeen]

Disability benefits should be the equivalent of a full time job on living wage. Things don’t cost less because you’re disabled - in fact you often have additional costs of living. You shouldn’t be forced into poverty because you are disabled.

[bisexualpiratequeen]

Before anyone comes in with ’ but then ppl would lie so they didn’t have to work!’

Two responses

Universal basic income + better wages is the way forward

Who fucking cares? Not me. This insistence that ppl lie to get benefits and as a result benefits should be a fucking pittance that it’s humiliating to apply for just fucks over disabled people and is inhumane

[blooming-wilting]

Added to this: 

No retesting of permanent disabilities. 

It is huge stress for people with autism or lost limbs or so forth to be retested, especially when they’re often denied - every two years or less - their benefits and forced to appeal and then get back what they originally had (or less) … it’s weeks without income, which has sent many people homeless or forced them into short-term loans and debt they can’t escape. It’s barbaric. 

Also, payments made during appeal - if they don’t deserve the cash, they can repay over time, but if they do then you’ve stopped them from going into debt and/or being made homeless. The whole system needs a huge overhaul, especially with the assessors being paid per person chucked off the system. 

It’s absolutely dehumanising to say the least. 

[daeranilen]

"Should parents read their daughter's texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?"

Earlier today, I served as the “young woman’s voice” in a panel of local experts at a Girl Scouts speaking event. One question for the panel was something to the effect of, “Should parents read their daughter’s texts or monitor her online activity for bad language and inappropriate content?”

I was surprised when the first panelist answered the question as if it were about cyberbullying. The adult audience nodded sagely as she spoke about the importance of protecting children online.

I reached for the microphone next. I said, “As far as reading your child’s texts or logging into their social media profiles, I would say 99.9% of the time, do not do that.”

Looks of total shock answered me. I actually saw heads jerk back in surprise. Even some of my fellow panelists blinked.

Everyone stared as I explained that going behind a child’s back in such a way severs the bond of trust with the parent. When I said, “This is the most effective way to ensure that your child never tells you anything,” it was like I’d delivered a revelation.

It’s easy to talk about the disconnect between the old and the young, but I don’t think I’d ever been so slapped in the face by the reality of it. It was clear that for most of the parents I spoke to, the idea of such actions as a violation had never occurred to them at all.

It alarms me how quickly adults forget that children are people.

[daeranilen]

Apparently people are rediscovering this post somehow and I think that’s pretty cool! Having experienced similar violations of trust in my youth, this is an important issue to me, so I want to add my personal story:

Around age 13, I tried to express to my mother that I thought I might have clinical depression, and she snapped at me “not to joke about things like that.” I stopped telling my mother when I felt depressed.

Around age 15, I caught my mother reading my diary. She confessed that any time she saw me write in my diary, she would sneak into my room and read it, because I only wrote when I was upset. I stopped keeping a diary.

Around age 18, I had an emotional breakdown while on vacation because I didn’t want to go to college. I ended up seeing a therapist for - surprise surprise - depression.

Around age 21, I spoke on this panel with my mother in the audience, and afterwards I mentioned the diary incident to her with respect to this particular Q&A. Her eyes welled up, and she said, “You know I read those because I was worried you were depressed and going to hurt yourself, right?”

TL;DR: When you invade your child’s privacy, you communicate three things:

You do not respect their rights as an individual.

You do not trust them to navigate problems or seek help on their own.

You probably haven’t been listening to them.

Information about almost every issue that you think you have to snoop for can probably be obtained by communicating with and listening to your child.

[daeranilen]

Part of me is really excited to see that the original post got 200 notes because holy crap 200 notes, and part of me is really saddened that something so negative has resonated with so many people.

[isitscary]

I love this post.

Too many parents wonder why their kids aren’t honest with them, and never realize their own non-receptive behavior and their failure to listen are the reasons why.

At one point or another, a child WILL keep a secret from you, but if it’s to a point where all their emotional feelings are being poured away from you as opposed to toward you, it’s probably because you haven’t been emotionally trustworthy or open. 

[intersectionalparenting-deactiv]

Adultism :(

[sw-or-gtfo-deactivated20211219]

not to mention, you then take away one of your child’s coping mechanisms. if your parents read your journal, you’re never writing in it again. if your parents monitor your conversations with friends, you won’t tell them when you’re depressed anymore. if you have a therapist that reports what you say to your parents, you won’t tell that therapist anything. now all those methods of venting, feeling better, self-soothing, sorting out your issues, and feeling safe are gone. “i want information” is not synonymous with “i want my child to talk to me.” those are two separate goals, but i think parents conflate them – i want my child to talk to me, but since they won’t, i’m stealing information from them. no. you didn’t ever want them to talk to you. you wanted information. if you wanted them to talk to you, if that was your entire end goal, you would have approached things completely differently. stealing information from a child ensures they will never talk to you again. but if all you want is information, then you can take it however you want and call it a parenting success. if what you wanted was a child who talks to you, you would apply the same principles you do to literally any other human interaction in your life, and cultivate a relationship and trust.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

I had to stifle my horror and revulsion at my last job, when a conversation about removing the door from a child’s bedroom came up, and I was only one not in favor of it.

May be worth noting I was the only millennial in a conversation that was otherwise full of baby boomers.

[toothmuncher3000]

I’m so lucky that my parents were - in general - pretty good about this sort of thing. They didn’t pry, and I always felt safe talking to them.

The result? When I went to a party the first time and they were doing drugs, I texted my mum about what was going on and that I wouldn’t partake. Voluntarily. She was so happy that she didn’t have to worry about me.

That trust goes in and out of flux because I’m now 20 and I don’t feel obligated to tell her everything that’s going on/I’d rather deal with it on my own, but in general things are fairly solid.

(The only time they ever took my bedroom door off was when I was 2 and I kept slamming it over and over and over again for hours on end, and 2 y/os don’t really have a concept of privacy anyway). 

Anyway, give your child agency and they will give you trust in return.

[tina-skellybutt]

While I think this is important is just like to add that the only way we found out my sister was being groomed by a pedophile on musicly was by checking her messages.

[vitariesocks]

Listen. Read. Educate yourselves. If you are unaware, fix that. Do not be complicit in the societal and legal oppression of transgender Americans.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Thought: I do NOT think that 50% of the world’s billionaires should be women. I think there shouldn’t be any billionaires at all.

[cranberrybogmummy]

So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yes.

[caosdth]

Why shouldn’t their be billionaires? That makes no sense.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Because the existence of billionaires is predicated on the exploitation of human labor and unsustainable environmental harm.  That level of wealth hoarding is harmful to economies, as it reduces the amount of money in circulation. No one person, no family, could ever conceivably even SPEND a billion dollars anyway, and  it is inherently immoral to accumulate wealth so narrowly while so much of the world lives in abject poverty.  

Better then to create a wealth ceiling, a point at which all wealth over a certain point  is taxed at or very near 100% to incentivize people to actually spend their money rather than hoard it, stimulating the economy and bettering the lives of far more people. Better even still to create and regulate economic systems that protect workers and the environment in a way that such extreme levels of wealth accumulation aren’t even feasible. 

[aflawedmind]

The problem with this is that it reduces the incentive to actually do fiscally well. What’s the point of starting a business if you can’t become wealthy?

[fandomsandfeminism]

There is a very real difference between “reasonably wealthy” and A BILLIONAIRE

[twodotsknowwhy]

No one is saying you shouldn’t have a nice house, we are saying that having multiple really, really ridiculously nice houses while your employees are either homeless or at serious risk of becoming homeless is immoral.

[whenandwhereienter]

I’ll never understand why this concept is hard for people. I think it’s because they can’t actually fathom how much $1 Billion is.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Seriously.

Let’s say you have a badass job. A great job. You make $100 AN HOUR. You work 10 hours a day ($1000 A DAY), 5 days a week ($5000 a week!!!), every week ($20,000 A MONTH), thats $240,000 Every Year.

It would take you 4,167 years to make a billion dollars.

[bogleech]

Yeah I think people seriously just don’t understand how big a billion is. There is literally no reason a single human could ever possibly need a billion dollars, and there is no conceivable way for a single human to “earn” a billion dollars. You can ONLY get a billion dollars by accumulating money from thousands of other laborers beneath you, all of whom deserve to share that wealth. It shouldn’t be legal to be able to decide your own salary with no limitations whatsoever. When you have the power to increase your own pay you should be REQUIRED to increase the pay of every single person you employ along with it, down to the last toilet scrubber. No exceptions. There isn’t a single ethical billionaire that ever lived and there never will be.

[crossdreamers]

@ScienceVet2 explains intersex variations on twitter.

ScienceVet is a Ph.D in Biochemistry and has published in the fields of endocrinology and sexual differentiation.  His Ph.D. is in Biomedical Sciences - Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmocology.

[indi-flying-with-dragons]

@destan-of-the-shadows @feminismandmedia

[chronomally]

friend friend friend friend friend friend fr

[sprmint-bkgsoda]

From the mouth of a One Percenter -

Abigail Disney

[mantaphase]

!!!!!!!!!!!

[marthawells-deactivated20181223]

“Yes, there is a superyachtinvestor.com. Go look at it and it will make you so angry, you could chew glass.”

[anarcho-smarmyism]

we stan class traitors on this blog

[cenobitic-anchorite]

Abigail Disney has no control or input on the operations of the corporation, she is a Disney heiress and, in that respect, nothing else. She puts her money towards philanthropy, especially women’s movements around the globe and peace organizations like Peace is Loud and the Global Fund for Women. She is a documentary filmmaker who explores these themes as well.

There are problematic family investments she earns money from that, legally, she cannot divest from. Instead, she donates these profits to charities that counter to those investments.

[wolverinedoctorwho]

Reblogging this version because I needed to read this after watching the video

[nuka-rockit]

working class person: I’m forced to beg for money and am at the mercy of other people’s goodwill as I’m facing serious suffering and/or death because my wages don’t cover the expenses I need to literally stay alive 

friends of working class person: we will scrape together some of our own funds at the possible detriment of our own families because we have no other choice if we don’t want our friend to, and we can’t believe we have to say this out loud, die 

media: This Uplifting Story of Friendship Will Brighten Your Day :)) Look As These Brave People Go On Happy With Their Lives Despite Hardship :)) This Story Proves That Poor People Who Complain About Their Standards Of Living  Are Just Not Trying Hard Enough :)))

[afrodesiaq-deactivated20250629]

this post was sandwiched on my dash between two people’s medical gofundmes and i want to cry

[tina-skellybutt]

So there is a Nazi insulation company where I live and tumblr is advertising them too me?

[spiderman-anti]

i need to follow more antis!! :D

only rb if you are:

• anti map/nomap

• anti terf

• anti racism

• anti misogyny

• anti ableism

• anti truscum

• anti exclusionist

• anti lgbt+ phobia (including nbphobia and acephobia.. also harmless mogai identities being called “cringe”)

• anti sh/ad/man and oni/sion

• anti cringe culture

• anti suicide baiting

• anti ‘anti sjw’

!!!

u u uh hhh ! dont reblog if u think heterophobia/cisphobia exists, reverse racism exists, feminism is oppressing men, or that men can’t experience sexual harassment.. oh and don’t even look at me if u think “transtrender” isn’t transphobic

[leatherwingsinc-deactivated2015]

[caluummhood-deactivated20140506]

HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE

MAKE A WISH

[jamesjoeboyleeeee-deactivated20]

the first post ever on tumblr

[powerpuffsposts-deactivated2025]

I WAS EXPECTING IT TO BE A REMAKE OF SOME SORT HOLY FUCK

[kpopdotexe-blog]

WHO THE FUCK KEEPS BRINGING THIS BACK

[teenyweenynotepad]

reblog this because it shows up every blue moon

[cosmosyoongi]

REBLOGREBLOGREBLOG

[simonsdeathsupportgroup-blog]

HECC

[strugglinggryffindorkid]

Wow!

[x-lilyofthevalley-x]

so pretty

[gravegospel]

What's your favourite Aesop rock track?

none shall pass or kirby

[tina-skellybutt]

Kirby is so dope.

[leftgender]

lmao you DO need dysphoria to be trans, THATS WHY PEOPLE TRANSITION!!! what kind of sense does it make to change your whole body when you’re fine with your gender?? then you’ll GET dysphoria! you idiot!

: ) ok

[bitten-tongue666]

you don’t have a valid reply,, so it’s just,, ‘ o k ‘

[leftgender]

I have an entire blog about why that’s wrong, and even more importantly, a nice long post if you’d like to check it out. If I answered every dumbass ask I got to the fullest extent, I’d be spending all my time just answering dumbass asks. So you get an ok.

[bitten-tongue666]

an entire blog.. filled with shit. genders not something you can just change on a whim because you feel like it, you can’t identify as fuckin otherkin or whatever it is tumblr users go by now. i’m a trans male, and it’s painful to see how many idiots think it’s fun and quirky to be trans!! uwu owob !!!!!~

[leftgender]

: ) ok

[bitten-tongue666]

you’re really not helping your case. you look like an utter idiot just going ‘o k :) since i hav no valid back up to the valid statement you just said.’

[leftgender]

The reason I’m saying : ) ok is because you’re being invalid! An invalid response for the invalid statement that I’ve disproved so many times already that it’s boring. But : ) ok!

[bitten-tongue666]

give me at least 10 articles where REAL doctors and scientists disprove you don’t need dysphoria to be trans. BECAUSE I CAN GIVE YOU 20+ ON REAL ONES THAT SAY ITS MANDATORY TO HAVE IT TO BE TRANS

[leftgender]

Can’t I’m on the last class trial of the first Danganronpa game and it’s just getting good, and after that I’m gonna be watching futari wa pretty cure, so maybe later!

[gearslut]

“Ultimately, the diagnosis was retained by DSM-5, but its name was changed to Gender Dysphoria (GD), simultaneously removing the stigmatizing ‘‘disorder’’ from its name and shifting the focus to dysphoria as the target symptom for intervention and treatment, rather than gender identity itself.”

“Gender incongruence (GI) refers to the feeling that the physical characteristics of the body are not in line with the experienced gender. This may (in the case of gender dysphoria) or may not be accompanied by distress.”

“As times and cultural attitudes change, so have beliefs about what constitutes a mental disorder. […] it is not unthinkable that people transitioning from one gender to another might be treated by medical specialists who, like obstetricians, use their interventions to facilitate what society considers to be a normal life event.”

“Over the years, terminology has frequently been changed. If identities or behaviours are not in line with a person’s natal sex, we will use the term ‘gender incongruent’; ‘transgender’ will be used as an umbrella term to refer to all kinds of phenomena related to gender incongruence. […] If a person experiences distress resulting from incongruence between gender identity and assigned gender (which happens usually at birth), this person is gender dysphoric.”

“Another diagnostic exclusion factor was the clinically significant distress or social impairment criterion that must be met for a positive diagnosis in both the DSM-5 (Criteria B) and the ICD-10 (Criteria D). However, among health professionals who assist transgender people, it is understood that the anxiety and inadequacy felt by transsexuals is mainly a result of the conflict between the individual’s and society’s moral values, which is also the source of the prejudice and social stigma to which they are culturally exposed. It is believed that in some families and social contexts, transgender people can be protected from prejudice and, consequently, from social suffering.”

“It is clear that the decision on the DSM- or ICD-categorization of GIVs cannot be achieved on a purely scientific basis. Instead, scientific issues need to be considered in combination with the service needs of persons with GIVs and the psychosocial implications of DSM formulations for such persons, when one works towards a consensus among stakeholders regarding a pragmatic compromise.”

“By 1975, transvestite/transsexual groups began using ‘‘transgenderism’’ as a term inclusive of transsexuals and transvestites. In 1979, 1982, and 1985, Christine Jorgensen, then perhaps the world’s most famous transsexual, publicly rejected the term transsexual in favor of the term transgender. In 1984, TV-TS Tapestry magazine featured an article recounting the importance of a ‘‘transgender community,’’ in which ‘‘transgender’’ was used as an umbrella term inclusive of transsexuals and cross-dressers. By the mid-1980s, ‘‘transgender’’ had been used multiple times—in medical, pop-culture, and trans community sources alike—as an umbrella term inclusive of transsexuals, crossdressers, and other gender-variant people.”

”Importantly, the term used in the source literature and by advocates of excluding gender dysphoria from diagnostic classification is a some what broader gender variance (GV), which is considered less pathologizing than either gender identity disorder or gender dysphoria.“

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(Note: Text hyperlinked to posts that should have citations. Since I composed this on mobile it was quicker to do it that way.)

Awww shoot I got so close. Just to breifly explain I just went through my blog for resources I tagged for subjects like this—tbh I was getting a lil excited there because I wasn’t expecting to actually find 10 sources because after I note something the first few times I start to ignore taking note of it when it shows up in further readings.

Anyways I am not gonna hunt down a tenth reference—I wasn’t even following the ”“‘criteria”“’ for that anyways. I just wanted to have a little fun and actually see if I had 10 references related to this at all.

It’s not strictly empirical data/medical practice, there is a mix of history/linguistics (again I wasn’t following the criteria, I was just quickly grabbing what I had indexed for reference purposes) but I don’t think that is an issue because I think the misunderstanding is linguistically based.

Here’s the the summation of what I am trying to get at with the list of quotes:

Transgender is an colloquial umbrella term—it has been for decades. It emcompasses everyone gender incongruent/gender varriant.

Gender dysphoria is (1) negative gender varriant experinces or (2) a DSM defined diagnosis

Gender dysphoria was defined to help a certain demographic of transpeople get access to resources with insurance coverage.

Gender dysphoria is not a synonym for Transgender. Trangender is an identity. Gender Dysphoria is a diagnosis that focuses on distress that experince causes some trans people.

Being transgender is not a medical condition—as in a condition that needs to be cured. Gender Dysphoria—severe distress that might accompany being transgender—is a medical conditionm. Doctors want to cure Gender Dysphoria. Doctors don’t want to cure a Transgender Identity.

Case and point: You need Gender Dysphoria to have…. Gender dysphoria.

Anyways as I think about it, maybe a bunch of the hostility from transmeds is from wanting social support for gender dysphoria specifically and thinking that is the same as wanting to connect to trans people in general??? I’m just speculating here, but it kinda reminds me of people with major depression getting pissed off at people with adjustment disorder when they say, “I’m depressed.” Maybe they should make Gender Dysphoria support groups, instead of running around griping that all the general trans spaces get taken over by non-dysphorics/non-dysphoric supporters. People might already do that though. Idk—just speculating.

Back on topic…. depending on your situation you might need gender dysphoria to be able to transition (because without insurance it is finacially unachievavle in your personal situation), but that doesn’t mean you need gender dysphoria to be trans.

Anyways—I’m gonna @ you — @bitten-tongue666 — so you can see this. I was gonna jokingly say ‘be respectful because I respected you and got 10 sources’ if I actually managed to quickly fetch 10 but even if I did I kinda doubt you would manage to be civil from what I’ve seen of your posts. Can’t hurt to ask though.

Also I am interested in your references that directly imply, “To have a transgender identity you need gender dysphoria,” because I’ve never seen academic literature that directly states that. I don’t really need 20 sources. And gonna be frank and say I hope you don’t just have a list of articles studying gender dysphoria or reviewing gender dysphoria treatment…. because the argument isn’t whether or not gender dysphoria exists—even as a socially constructed medical diagnosis it is a very much a reality for the people who have to live with it. Like I’ve seen a lot of transmeds just provide proof that scientistics study gender dysphoria and trans neurology, but the articles did not connect the dots the transmeds said were connected and when I asked them to point out where it is if I’m wrong—they just yelled their heads off silly with like “”“'I GAVE YOU EVIDENCE”“”“…. (me: “but ur first claim isn’t in this evidence and ur second claim was it was….”///them: “blllaaarrrggg!!!!”)

Idk if I would agree if your provided sources because it would just be overwriting that transgender has already meant something different for decades. But it would be interesting to see—especially since the DSM workgroup has stated that gender dysphoria was defined to manage and treat distress, not defined to define transgender. But hey—whatever~~~ Hit me up.

[gearslut]

Dude @bitten-tongue666 — when I saw your last reply I figured you were just gonna retreat because you didn’t put up. I was just gonna respect your ego-saving retreat But to wake up to you still hypocritically demanding proof in the notes when I fucken gave you a source backed arguement is so rude. You’re just ignoring I directly spoke to you at all—

—you also have a burden of proof here and you have not provided anything to your arguement. Give me proof you hypocrite. You asked and I provided. I asked and you didn’t provide. If you aren’t gonna play your own game (giving sources) then you don’t have a leg to stand on to keep asking for proof.

You claimed you have 20 sources directly stating an equivalant of ‘you need dysphoria to be trans’. Give me just one sourced quote dude. One thing that actually says what your saying—preferablly from a peer reviewed journal.

I’m calling your bluff, @bitten-tongue666. You said scientists say you need dysphoria to be trans. Gimme a proper source demonstrating your claim. =____= Otherwise stop being a hypocrite by asking for what you won’t give yourself.

[leftgender]

[thewolfgodsblog]

you ever notice how to bureaucrats trans people are whatever gender is most expedient for them? transgender woman gets denied a change of gender, she goes outside topless and gets arrested on public indecency charges that only affects women. not woman enough to change her gender, but woman enough to go to jail. this trans woman veteran from ww2 got married after changing her gender on her birth certificate, and after her husband died she was denied widow’s benefits because social security said gay marriage wasn’t legal in the state they were married in. didn’t matter that legally she was a woman and he was a man. she fought that decision and won, but she still was woman enough for her state but not woman enough for the feds

being trans isn’t always about people deliberately misgendering you, sometimes it’s about them deciding what gender would fuck you over the most at any given time. you’re not a woman until it’s expedient for them, you’re a woman until they’d have to actually give you benefits. it’s a bitch and a half

[thewolfgodsblog]

this is why adding a third gender option to birth certificates and driver’s licenses and passports is pointless; regardless of what letter it is, m, f, or n, you’re going to be treated by whatever authority figure sees you however they decide. it’s far better to simply remove gender from documents like those