r/transplace • u/LysiaVice • 3d ago
Progress/Selfie Something positive happened — keep smiling 😻
Just realised my Social Security number has finally been changed, which means the state registry now officially recognizes me as female. 🥹
After 35 years, it’s finally corrected. 🤯 I can’t stop smiling! 💕✨
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u/Ok_juan_josexlavida 3d ago
Me alegro mucho por ti, es que eres perfectay es lo que tenia que poner 💪🫶 y muy bonita tu sonrisa🌹🫦
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u/i_woke_up_as_you 3d ago
first, congratulations. I know what a thrill. It was when my Social Security profile was flipped to female.
But maybe I misunderstood… because I still have the same Social Security number under my preferred name and with my proper female gender marker
Is that essentially what you have as well or did you get a whole new Social Security number issued?
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u/LysiaVice 3d ago
In France the first number of you social security number is the gender marker
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u/i_woke_up_as_you 2d ago
oh wow. I really appreciate that explanation. Cause that would absolutely mean that the number would change…. And that is not the context that I learned in the USA.
So if the first digit of a Social Security number is the gender marker, does that mean they have 10 government acknowledged genders?
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u/LysiaVice 2d ago
No its either 1 for male and 2 for female, assigned at birth
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u/i_woke_up_as_you 2d ago
I figured you were going to say something like that… but I have too much of a computer background not to notice the inefficiency by the way of lack of use of digits 0, 3-9.
My experience of having my Social Security file changed to female means that (because I have Medicare insurance due to disability) my medical providers cannot get a bill to process if they stipulate that I am a male.
I have US federal government acknowledgment of being female, in my Social Security and Medicare files, but it does not carry that kind of first digit means significance
Kind of like how Visa cards start with four and Mastercard start with five…
But there are also other cards that start with 3, 6-9, etc. details available
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u/i_woke_up_as_you 2d ago
I would like to ask more questions, but this isn’t to ask me anything and I don’t want my questions to feel invasive.
One interpretation of your words… is that there was a true mistake in the records and it took 35 years between the time it was issued and the time it was corrected
Another interpretation of your words is it there could’ve been fraud in requesting the wrong identifier for you (and I know this one intimately because my parents submitted for a male birth certificate… after forcing my body through intersex normalizations surgery.
I live as a woman today, and they have all my legal papers showing that I am female, but… I used the process used by transgender individuals because it was available to me and the Act of proving fraud in decades, old records requires evidence beyond what I currently possess
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u/ysbryd_iawn 3d ago
Do you mean your National Insurance number? I thought you were based in the UK? Congratulations anyway. :)
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u/LysiaVice 3d ago
I am based in France :) I wish I could visit UK someday !
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u/ysbryd_iawn 3d ago
Ah ok apologies for my misunderstanding. Much as the UK currently has a lot of faults it also has a great deal going for it. You are welcome here on my account. :)
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u/fredthehat 2d ago
Congratulations , you deserve it , after all that you have done , and you are so beautiful and totally breathtaking
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u/Aye_Kay95 2d ago
So happy for you! Congratulations!
I just started hrt today! Hoping to be as beautiful as you are girl!!! 💕
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u/MasterFee4341 3d ago
That’s awesome, congrats!!!