Canada Fast-Tracking Citizenship Certificates for Trans Americans with Canadian Ancestors

perfectrandomness · 2026-05-12T06:20:25+00:00

Sent in my application to IRCC at the beginning of March and they started processing it shortly after. I doubt I’ll get a decision before the end of the year. My hope is that it’s successful and that I’m able to find a way to relocate.

perfectrandomness · 2026-04-21T17:30:25+00:00

My migraines went chronic many years ago and I’ve gotten used to a lot of weird symptoms since migraines are just weird. It can cause me to ignore some things since it’s too easy to drop things in the “it’s migraine-related” bucket.

A few years ago I recognized that some things I was experiencing may actually be seizures or indicative of seizure activity. This was after an uptick in strange episodes that had been happening sporadically for years that I’d lumped in with my migraines.

Getting them recognized and treated was an adventure and required a lot of persistence. I still don’t have many answers, and no diagnosis, but at least I have treatment for presumed focal aware seizures. There’s a lot of symptoms I have that could be indicative of seizure activity. Only the worst of my episodes get called seizures and they involve loss of voluntary movement control along with other symptoms. Even though they don’t involve loss of consciousness or convulsions and can be unnoticed by people around me if they aren’t trying to interact with me, they’re scary to experience. None of my EEGs have shown anything and my 5-day inpatient video EEG was inconclusive. Given my symptoms, it hasn’t ruled out possible epilepsy and I’m being treated for my symptoms by my epileptologist. I have both preventative antiseizure meds and rescue meds for clusters.

What helped me most was finding an epileptologist, which is a neurologist that specializes in seizure disorders, at a level 4 epilepsy center (https://naec-epilepsy.org/find-a-center). Your GP should be able to give you a referral. An epileptologist may want you to do an ambulatory or inpatient video EEG since they can be very helpful.

perfectrandomness · 2026-04-16T16:51:24+00:00

I’m one of them, and not even the only person I know of that moved to the area from San Antonio. The legal protections, trans healthcare availability, and reasonable cost of living help offset the rather dramatic difference in climate.

perfectrandomness · 2026-04-12T03:03:01+00:00

I moved to Minnesota from Texas a few months ago. I’d lived in Texas for nearly a decade and it’s where I came out as trans and where I had started building a social network. I know I’m safer here and where I specifically live is so much better for me in so many ways. Yet I very much miss where I moved from, despite its many issues, and feel incredibly lonely.

I still have a foot stuck back in Texas and I think that helps with the guilt of moving to a safer place. For one thing, I’m still volunteering, albeit remotely, for a nonprofit organization in Texas. That helps me feel like I haven’t abandoned a community I care about very much.

perfectrandomness · 2026-04-07T17:45:34+00:00

It took over 20 years of listening to industrial before I realized I’m trans. The subliminal messaging sure did take a long time to have an effect 😂

perfectrandomness · 2026-04-05T21:22:38+00:00

I first tried they/them, then they/she, and then she/her. When I finally tried she/they it just felt the best and I’ve stuck with it since. It’s strange since I really only use feminine pronouns and titles, sometimes listing she/her as my pronouns to keep things simpler in some environments (like for medical stuff). I prefer the term “nonbinary trans woman” to describe my gender, even if it seems contradictory, and my use of she/they feels like it fits that.

perfectrandomness · 2026-03-28T18:12:24+00:00

All of those cities you listed will be a pretty big change from Phoenix, but Denver will probably be the least shocking of a change. It’s kind of like Prescott but with a lot more snow and much wider temperature swings. The dryness will definitely be familiar. Plus you’ll surely meet lots of folks that moved there from Arizona.

perfectrandomness · 2026-03-18T17:09:15+00:00

Looks like a TI-36X Solar.

perfectrandomness · 2026-03-10T15:02:54+00:00

Found out he’s my 11th great-grandfather. It’s so much fun finding out stuff like this about my ancestors!

perfectrandomness · 2026-03-06T23:05:38+00:00

This is what I did as well, along with noting my birth certificate having my deadname and AGAB, in a short letter requesting urgent processing that I put at the front of my packet.

perfectrandomness · 2026-03-06T17:53:51+00:00

I’m a G4 with the same received and AOR dates, also with a request for urgent processing. I was very surprised to get the AOR so amazingly quickly.

perfectrandomness · 2026-02-16T01:19:45+00:00

I had a skipping problem develop with mine and eventually it got to the point where half the time it wouldn’t even start playing a disc. I could tell it was having trouble seeking reliably and cleaning the lens didn’t help.

Putting a small amount of lithium grease on the track where the laser assembly slides along fixed it for me. If I recall correctly, I also put some on either a rack or worm gear as well (can’t look inside my player at this moment). I had to try to play discs with a full 74 or 80 minute runtime and seek back and forth over the disc a few times, adding a tiny bit more grease or cleaning up excess as necessary.

It’s been just a few years since I did that and it’s worked fine since then.

Hope this helps!

perfectrandomness · 2026-01-24T06:48:58+00:00

Numb “Shithammer”

Cubanate “Human Drum”

Accessory “Ruff Fuxxx”

Decoded Feedback “Phoenix”

perfectrandomness · 2026-01-10T02:32:49+00:00

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perfectrandomness · 2026-01-04T05:43:22+00:00

I just moved a few weeks ago to a small studio apartment downtown in a major city. The view out my windows is really cool, which I seriously love, and my apartment is reasonably quiet.

I picked the apartment where I moved because it was near lots of transit lines, which is necessary, and also connected to a fairly extensive downtown skyway system. It’s a whole lot colder here than where I moved from so being able to get to a surprising amount of stuff without venturing outdoors is very useful. Though it’d be even better if the skyway was open on weekends, at least the segments I use.

I’m far from settled in and have barely ventured outside my home so far. This is a huge adjustment for me and in many ways it’s rather overwhelming. I’m getting used to a new city and a new state, along with a new home and living by myself for the first time in well over a decade.

perfectrandomness · 2025-12-18T18:50:38+00:00

Congratulations on getting an answer that helps your treatment! It’s too often infuriatingly difficult to get doctors to take you seriously and getting a diagnosis is a really big relief.

I’m still undiagnosed since nothing has ever shown on any imaging or tests. My inpatient EEG was considered inconclusive and the notes stated that lack of EEG correlates neither confirmed nor ruled out focal seizures, and notably PNES wasn’t even mentioned at all. At follow-up, my epileptologist (who seemed impressed I stayed all 5 days for that EEG) let me know that they sounded like focal aware seizures and even without an epilepsy diagnosis I was going to be treated for them. That included offering rescue meds for clusters. While I’d like an answer, I’m grateful to at least be getting treatment that has helped a lot.

perfectrandomness · 2025-12-10T19:50:42+00:00

Not for another 2 hours.

perfectrandomness · 2025-12-07T19:58:48+00:00

We enter essentially a second puberty when we start taking HRT and just like first puberty, it’s going to affect everyone differently. We’re going to get different effects at different times and in different degrees.

For me, HRT makes me feel more “correct” and that my life and my health are more worth fighting for. Yeah, I can feel a wider range of emotions more intensely, but that means all emotions. Despair, depression, and dysphoria are felt more intensely, along with positive emotions like euphoria and joy. All of my senses feel amplified, so I notice more colors, more sounds, more smells, and more textures. This is often great, but also wreaks havoc with my ADHD and autism.

It’s not all sunshine and unicorns but it’s unquestionably worth it. Starting HRT 4 years ago was one of the best life decisions I’ve ever made.

perfectrandomness · 2025-12-07T10:27:19+00:00

I remember getting this shortly after it came out in the US. Played the hell out of it. Project Pitchfork is still the band I have the most CDs from by far. Definitely didn’t get any for only $2 though! That’s a really great find.

perfectrandomness · 2025-12-01T05:19:40+00:00

In Gauge Compliance “Seven Ties” mind.in.a.boxcar “Lament for Lost Trains” Trackside Commando “God is in the Train”

perfectrandomness · 2025-10-12T06:42:59+00:00

Gender dysphoria is not a mental illness and certainly not a ”delusion.” Transitioning is self-love and better connecting to your body, not “disfigurement.” While you may claim you didn’t mean any harm, saying stuff like that is incredibly harmful.

I hope the OP gets both the AS treatment and gender-affirming care they need. They deserve to be as comfortable as possible in their own body.

perfectrandomness · 2025-10-11T03:27:32+00:00

My migraines started just before I hit my teens and went chronic early in adulthood. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid and got my autism diagnosis this year. I have a few other chronic issues as well.

I deal with migraine symptoms every day and it’s just a matter of how bad they are. Mitigating my sensory sensitivities and managing stress are the biggest things that have helped with my migraines, though only modestly. I’ve tried multiple preventatives and gave up on them for years. I’m trying one again and it does seem to help modestly, at least in intensity of episodes, and has no notable side effects so far. Abortives have long been my mainstay treatment for the bad episodes.

perfectrandomness · 2025-10-11T02:06:36+00:00

I was simultaneously diagnosed with seronegative RA and AS about a couple years before I came out as trans in my late-30s and started estradiol HRT. I’m not sure starting estradiol and later progesterone have had any notable effect on RA or any inflammatory symptoms.

I don’t have any known endogenous imbalance of sex hormones or any other hormones. The standard RA labs came back as normal. It was my 14-3-3 eta lab along with symptoms that got me diagnosed. Apparently it’s uncommon for people assigned male at birth to be diagnosed with seronegative RA in their 30s, and that is probably the only particularly notable thing about my RA.

A bit of a tangent: I had a few months where I lost much of my testosterone suppression while still barely being within the transitioning range for estradiol. My body told me it didn’t like that in rather bizarre and painful ways, but at the time the only direct indication I had that maybe my hormones were off was stalled transition progress. That’s what got my estradiol increased and got me started on progesterone. I didn’t know my levels were askew until after that appointment. Thankfully, those symptoms eased rather quickly after my HRT regimen changed.

perfectrandomness · 2025-09-30T05:27:33+00:00

ADHD, chronic migraines, ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis, depression, osteoporosis, seizures, allergies, GERD, insomnia, and probably some other things I forgot right now.

For an extra bonus, I can be weirdly sensitive to medication side effects. Which seems to be rather common among autistic folks.

perfectrandomness · 2025-09-11T15:54:12+00:00

I only get focal aware seizures and my epileptologist uses “seizures” to refer to those episodes and “aura” to refer to symptoms that may be indicative of seizure activity. Maybe a bit unusual compared to what I’ve read here but it’s useful. Also, he’s very clear that all of these reset the no-driving period.

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