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I think I weighed like 180-200lbs when I started and honestly I feel like my transition has been useless because of this and I should of been denied hrt. And I look super ugly

I have been curious of this one since it's a feature that mastodon has, and while I understand with FOSS software anyone can disable that, but usually people don't and if I knew they were doing that I would defederate them.

Is it because I'm slightly overweight and was before hrt, is it my chin fat. I'm just so dysphonic I don't even feel like girl moding cause I'll feel awful.

I have been using Waterfox for some time now, and I generally really like it, and since it appears to be using QT I do not have that annoying mismatch I tend to have with Firefox and Librewolf. However I did recently become aware that it's owned by an ad company, my general question is have they done anything spooky yet? also while this might come off as a general paranoia are the accounts I logged in using Waterfox safe

I feel like the post's title does not do this one justice, anyway, I recently graduated college with an associate's in computer programming, however, I honestly lack skills beyond very basic programming skills. I have ADHD and autism and have a ton of trouble self-teaching myself things, I managed to teach myself some intermediate skills in docker and general Linux system administration when I was younger and still use it today. I feel like getting a job as a sysadmin might make more sense but for some reason, I feel like on paper my resume would just hit the shredder.

I lack min wage work experience as I did not work in college and I kinda wonder if I have the work a min wage for like 2 years to get a normal job. and if I should get off HRT cause min wage jobs in the south don’t like trans people, and that it’s just gonna get banned anyway

Her substack has an RSS feed so it would be super easy to do.

https://youtu.be/6kglNioOuK8

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My name is Leona, I'm a trans woman, and I am a former game dev that worked on The Elder Scrolls Online from 2018 to 2022. I am reaching out to the LGBT+ community here on Reddit in an effort to bring attention to the issues I faced coming out of the closet while working in the AAA gaming industry. My career at Zenimax ended when HR at Bethesda's corporate office used my upcoming gender affirming surgeries as leverage to force me to resign and release the company from any potential discrimination lawsuit. This was in retaliation for raising concerns over how my manager had been treating me unfairly. I collected audio recordings and screenshots of my experiences there, and have now made all of that information publicly available in this video.

I completely understand that four hours is a lot to ask anyone to sit through. I had decided when putting this all together that it was important to keep as much context and chronology intact as possible, hence the lengthy runtime. So here is a list of timestamps to key moments in the timeline for those who wish to skip around the video:

00:04:25 - Screenshot of messages from my manager that I received via Slack while she outed me during a group meeting with my teammates.

00:22:35 - My manager does not take my inconsistent work photo issue seriously.

00:38:10 - I get told that I need to be given stricter work expectations due to FMLA. My manager assumes that my FMLA is for "the surgeries", and after probing for details as to why I am submitting FMLA forms to HR it gets suggested that my role be downgraded from Mid-Level to an Associate due to upcoming medical leave.

00:46:41 - I get pressured to not return to work early from my PTO, which turns into a conversation about why I need to be assigned unique assignments from the rest of the team, and ends with being asked how much work I could take on over that upcoming weekend.

01:02:54 - I try to explain to my manager (for the second time) how devastating it was that she revealed my new work photo before I had the opportunity, canceled the meeting we had agreed I would have the platform to come out on my own terms, and then pressured me to come out via Slack messages instead.

01:56:30 - Conversation with my manager where she asks me to "stick with DEADNAME" so that I can continue working through the technical issues I was experiencing due to my name change.

02:10:00 - Call with my manager where I am accused of being distracted from work by the technical issues that I was still facing, and that I created a "chaotic situation" by requesting a name change in the first place.

02:19:35 - Discussion with my manager's boss about certain events that he was present for, this one in particular is when we are discussing my name change being brought up in front of multiple people during a group discussion, some of whom had never interacted with me and were not aware that I was transgender.

03:13:27 - Final conversation I had with my manager and (new) producer where I am trying to address ongoing issues I have had logging in. For 3 months I kept hitting roadblocks or losing access to our tools due to my name change, and nothing seemed to fix it. I display a series of screenshots of the login issues I collected during that time. I also had my portfolio website blocked by the company's firewall after I updated my name and URL.

03:26:03 - The Head of Human Resources asking me "I don't understand, a fear of being outed to the public? Aren't you already out?", and I have to explain to them that being transgender is not the same as everybody knows that you are trans.

03:50:24 - I had contacted corporate HR at Bethesda, and they responded by viewing me as a liability. They used my upcoming surgeries as leverage to release them from any potential discrimination lawsuit by promising to pay my COBRA premiums, but only if I signed a resignation agreement with them.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~