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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
daisy@cloudisland.nz ("Daisy Leigh Brenecki") wrote:
Sometime just after 4:35pm Pittsburgh time tomorrow (Sunday—I think it's still Saturday there as I write this), I was supposed to walk on stage at @pycon and receive the Community Service Award.
I won't be doing that in person, because I'm transgender, and the event is in the US.
My AU passport has an X gender marker, so I can't even get an ESTA or visitor visa to enter the US, and even if I could it is a country that is even more wildly unsafe for people like me than it was a year ago.