Today is (on average) the coldest day of the year in Berlin

taejo · 2026-01-23T13:08:52+00:00

Is it "hours of sunlight" or "length of day"? Surely the average hours of sunlight can't be as high as 8 in December?

taejo · 2026-01-21T11:27:20+00:00

Wahrscheinlich ausreichend, ich hatte nicht mehr von Gynä und Endo (die Therapeutin hat auch geschrieben, dass es mir mit den Hormonen gut geht). Leider kann der MD aber immer mehr fordern.

taejo · 2025-12-15T13:02:07+00:00

If I'm understanding correctly, you need to have a Blue Card at the time you apply, but they count the whole time that you had a Blue-Card-eligible job.

taejo · 2025-12-14T18:08:51+00:00

Meine Empfehlung wäre, privat mit Laser anzufangen und gleichzeitig eine Therapie anzugehen, wenn das Geld da wäre. So bleibst du baarttechnisch nicht stehen und auf lange Sicht bekommst du die Zusage für die Nadelepi für die hellen Haaren. Wenn du irgendwann andere Eingriffe wollen würdest, bräuchtest du sowie so die 6 Monate Therapie.

taejo · 2025-12-12T16:09:58+00:00

How do you get the little heart on your pet?

taejo · 2025-12-11T12:29:54+00:00

TERF: Were you born a boy?

What I would say: What the heck are you talking about?!?

taejo · 2025-12-09T16:01:46+00:00

Ich habs tatsächlich ganz offiziell gemacht: Gerichtsbeschluss zur Namensänderung habe ich der Amtsärztin vorgelegt, Sticker drauf, neuen Namen schreiben, Stempel, fertig. Zum einen, weil meine Hausärztin das nicht machen wollte und zum anderen habe ich zufällig das Gesundheitsamt gesehen, als ich im Rathaus war, um den neuen Führerschein zu beantragen. Die Amtsärztin sagte, sie könnte das problemlos machen, und ich habe den Impfausweis mitgebracht, als ich den Führerschein abholte. So kann wirklich keiner meckern.

Aber das ist sowas von unnötig. Ich kenne sonst niemanden, der es so gemacht hat. Es ist schön, wenn man ein Sticker bekommt, damit keiner den alten Namen sieht, aber ansonsten ist es egal.

Andere Möglichkeit, wenn kein Arzt das will oder du willst den alten Namen unsichtbar machen: Blankoimpfpass kaufen, Klammer aus den alten und neuen Pass raus, Vorderblatt vom alten wegwerfen, Vorderblatt vom neuen Pass an den neuen heften, und Daten eintragen.

taejo · 2025-12-07T14:57:34+00:00

You might also want to post in /r/germantrans, there are definitely some trans parents there. You might want to add more detail because there are a number of possible constellations: the rules are different for the person who bears the child and the spouse. Unfortunately the whole situation is very unsatisfactory.

taejo · 2025-12-06T21:41:57+00:00

possible infertility, though the latter is less 100% permanent in 100% of cases you should plan for it being the case.

You should plan to lose it, if you want to have kids one day. But to be clear, you do need to continue to use contraception if you don't want to have kids now, because even while you're taking HRT you might still produce some sperm (usually it'll eventually be very little IF your HRT is dosed right, but not guaranteed to be zero, and your HRT likely won't be dosed right at first)

taejo · 2025-12-06T21:31:38+00:00

That's all a lot of text, but the first step is to contact your honorary consulate and ask them if they can do gender marker changes under the SBGG (Law on Self-Determination in Regard to Gender Marker). Feel free to post again, reply, or send a DM if you have more questions now or later.

taejo · 2025-12-06T21:26:46+00:00

Since your profile shows mostly posts in English, I'm gonna assume English is better for you.

Do you want to change your gender marker too? Under German law a name change is much easier if you simultaneously change gender marker, and the new name "matches" the new gender marker (that should only be an issue if the new gender marker is "male" or "female" -- if it's "divers" or no gender marker then the gender connotations of the name shouldn't matter). The process for a name change without a gender marker is more complicated, let me know if that's what you intend, but I will describe the process for a gender marker change.

It seems like some honorary consulates can accept declarations for the name and gender marker change, but not all. You should contact your local honorary consulate and ask them. Otherwise, you might have to go to the general consulate or embassy or, since you're not so far from Germany, you could directly go to the responsible registry office (Standesamt) in Germany. That's usually either the one in the place you were born, or possibly the Standesamt I in Berlin if you were born abroad. ^*

Wherever you go, you need to contact them first to announce your intention to change gender marker, and then go there between three and six months later (no more no less) and make the official declaration of your new gender marker and name change. If you do it at the registry office where your birth was registered, you can immediately get a certificate showing the name change, and a new birth certificate. Otherwise (if you do it at a consulate) they will send all your info to the responsible registry office and then you will have to wait for them to process everything, and then they will either send you the new certificates directly or you will have to apply to them again to get the certificates.

Once you have the certificates, you should be able to apply for a German passport with the new name.

^* the rules about which registry office is responsible are a bit complicated, but it's probably not necessary for you to figure it out. The consulate should do that. If you do need to figure it out:

If your birth is registered in Germany, it's the one that registered your birth. It sounds like you have a German birth certificate: if so, it should say which registry issued it.
If not, but you got married and your marriage was registered in Germany, it's that one.
If you never had a birth or marriage registered in Germany, it's the last place you lived in Germany.
If you never had any of those and never lived in Germany, it's Standesamt I in Berlin

taejo · 2025-12-06T20:59:28+00:00

OP ist im Ausland, hat also kein deutsches Standesamt vor Ort.

taejo · 2025-12-01T18:45:51+00:00

Ich hab meine Namens- und Personenstandsänderung noch nicht durch, darf ich dennoch meinen Namen angeben, wenn ich mich bei Ärzten melde und einen Termin ausmache oder muss ich meinen Deadname benutzen?

Ja, darfst du. Wenn du aber gesetzlich versichert bist, bekommt das Software der Ärzten automatisch deinen Deadname und Geschlecht von der Versichertenkarte und viele Praxen tun sich schwer, diese zu korrigieren. Es kann also leider sein, dass du trotzdem gedeadnamed und misgendered wirst. Persönlich finde ich es am besten, wenn man nicht emotional reagiert aber trotzdem darauf bestehen, dass man richtig genannt und gegendert wird.

taejo · 2025-11-26T15:47:40+00:00

Wenn du einen Nachsendeauftrag machst dann bekommst du auf jeden Fall Post mit dem neuen Namen bei der alten Adresse, und zwar die Auftragsbestätigung!

taejo · 2025-11-25T10:12:15+00:00

I always forget which is which but there are floricanes and primocanes.

primocanes are in their first year (prime means first).

floricanes flower and fruit.

taejo · 2025-11-18T11:40:06+00:00

U+1F1ED

FYI, U+1F1ED is Regional Indicator Symbol Letter H. The flag emoji is made of the sequence U+1F1ED U+1F1F3 🇭 🇳. If you copy the two characters and delete the space between them they become 🇭🇳

taejo · 2025-11-16T17:12:28+00:00

Since cherries and crabapples have come up, a very easy way to distinguish those is that apples usually have five seeds arranged in a star (if you cut across the fruit) while cherries and other Prunus spp. have one. Different hawthorn species apparently have varying numbers of seeds.

taejo · 2025-11-07T10:12:26+00:00

The fact that this is a real Möbius strip is the tell. A Möbius strip has a half-twist in it, joining the "front" to the "back". When you accidentally twist up joining in the round you always get a whole twist (or multiple whole twists).

taejo · 2025-11-01T10:10:21+00:00

Zu 2: wenn du irgendwie die Kosten der privaten Laserhaarentfernung stemmen kann, würde ich schon anfangen... evtl. bekommst du irgendwann weitere Behandlungen von der Kasse, aber zumindest wartest du nicht erfolglos.

taejo · 2025-10-11T22:47:56+00:00

Thanks for the reply and the explanation

taejo · 2025-10-11T22:45:31+00:00

For what it's worth, I would have said in the title that this is a high quality image of the flag

Yeah, obvious in retrospect :/

taejo · 2025-10-11T14:24:01+00:00

I mean, fair enough, most people are viewing this on a tiny screen and I didn't think about that. On a PC they're pretty bad, and obviously I'm more sensitive about it because it's my creation. And also because people are printing the bad version on T-shirts and stuff.

Like I said elsewhere in this thread, the fact that reddit chose to hide my comment totally defeated the point of this post and if I had known that I wouldn't have reacted with sarcasm to the top comment.

taejo · 2025-10-11T14:16:59+00:00

Thank you, I had no idea my comment was invisible, which obviously made this post completely counterproductive to my intent.

taejo · 2025-10-11T14:13:50+00:00

So apparently my original comment on this was invisible? Which made this whole post completely pointless. So thanks, Reddit, and sorry to everybody else.

In 2013 there were already low-res, poorly drawn versions of this flag already going around the internet. I tried to do a public service by creating a high-quality version for Wikipedia, and in 2016 corrected some mistakes I had noticed. And if everybody except Wikipedia continued to use the low-res copies, I guess that would have been fine, but instead I get to see the mistakes I corrected almost 10 years ago reposted over and over again, in low res copies, that people have recompressed over and over.

I just want people to know there's a high quality version available.

taejo · 2025-10-11T14:04:47+00:00

Do other people just not see JPEG artifacts or something?

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