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excerpt: "A little about me on transness, Asperger's syndrome/autism, feminism & using Linux."
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On this page I am trying to explain myself more or those things that you
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might wonder in my self-description. Some things that I explain here may
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overlap with different features.
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## GirlsLikeUs — I am trans woman
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It simply means that I was incorrectly defined as boy at birth which I
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never was. I didn't always know it, but around 14-15 Dysphoria really hit
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me.
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I was always different from boys and I have been always bullied and I
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became suicidal and depressed. I was diagnosed with AS which didn't so
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much, but finally I came to realization on who I am and started the
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progress to be recognized as myself.
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As the progress is too slow in Finland I ended up starting HRT by myself
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(like many (if not most) of us here do) and was on it for year before
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getting diagnosed and getting HRT officially.
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Many people have said that I am nowadays happier and smile more and other
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things like that and I know this is who I am.
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It's also not very nice when you separate sex and gender by saying "your
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gender can be female, but you are always biologically male" and it has
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been noted multiple times that gender is biological.
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* 2015-02-13: [Review article provides evidence on the biological nature
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  of gender identity](http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-02-article-evidence-biological-nature-gender.html)
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* 2015-02-18: [Sex redefined](http://www.nature.com/news/sex-redefined-1.16943?WT.mc_id=FBK_NatureNews)
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    * *"So if the law requires that a person is male or female, should
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      that sex be assigned by anatomy, hormones, cells or chromosomes, and
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      what should be done if they clash? “My feeling is that since there
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      is not one biological parameter that takes over every other
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      parameter, at the end of the day, gender identity seems to be the
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      most reasonable parameter,” says Vilain. In other words, if you want
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      to know whether someone is male or female, it may be best just to
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      ask."*
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* 2015-03-03: [Gender Identity is Biological, Study Says](https://gma.yahoo.com/gender-identity-biological-study-says-090824140--abc-news-health.html)
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Oh, and even if I talk about my transness (and other things) openly here,
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I prefer that *you don't talk about me being trans/autist to anyone* and
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*let me tell by myself* if I see reason to do it. People interested enough
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can put my name to any search engine and find here sooner or later.
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## AS - Asperger's Syndrome
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I am AS-person and you might see it from the way I write and speak. I have
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some over-sensitive senses like sense of hearing and it becomes difficult
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for me to speak if I try to look into your eyes at the same time, so I am
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not trying to be impolite or anything, it's just easier to not look at you
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while I speak. Same applies to understanding your speaking.
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## Feminist
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I support equal rights for everyone and the right of self-definition (or
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not requiring anyone to define themselves). Everyone should also be the one
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to choose what they do with their body (abortion, gender transition etc.)
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freely without complicated researchs and other people or society judging
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them.
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## Linux user
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I have been used Linux since 2008, I started with [Ubuntu] \(8.04) which I am
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still using. My preferred distribution is [Ubuntu MATE] or
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[Ubuntu Server], but I am also familiar with other distributions, mainly
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[Debian]-deriatives. 
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I have experience with [Fedora] and other distributions from that side too
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and I am not entirely lost while using them, but somehow I have always
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preferred Debian side. Maybe it's just that I have learned to use it.
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[Ubuntu]:http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop
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[Ubuntu MATE]:https://ubuntu-mate.org/
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[Ubuntu Server]:http://www.ubuntu.com/server
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[Debian]:https://www.debian.org/
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[Fedora]:https://getfedora.org
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* * * * *
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*Please keep in mind that everything in this page is just my opinion and
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not all trans or AS or \<any group\> people are the exact same.*
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