Amy Zoyomi is a 29-year-old transgender woman from Lucenec, a town with 30,000 inhabitants in southern Slovakia. As an adult, Amy decided to move to the capital, Bratislava. Her gender identity was one of the main reasons for leaving her hometown.
For Amy, life in Lucenec and life in Bratislava are poles apart. “When I walk down the street in my home town, people often stare at me,” she told DW. “Sometimes they stop, and the stares change to verbal abuse. That doesn’t happen in the capital. I feel safe here, people are much more relaxed and don’t pay so much attention to others,” she explained.
Which is, again, just a government’s formal recognition of the relationship. Why do people care so much about the religious rituals of the government?
I don’t care about religious rituals. I care about the legal advantages you get by having that recognised. I couldn’t give two shits about what the church does. That is in my eyes completely irrelevant to the state apparatus.
I believe the state IS a religious apparatus.
And until it creates new boxes to assign people in, there’s the next best thing: https://github.com/pavoltravnik/tameMe
Welcome to Afghanistan then.