This is a Dialog I Am Having With Best Buy on Facebook

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Shelley Adrienne Mimi Belsky This is sad.
Best Buy used to be one of the few companies that supported Gender Reassignment Surgery as one of it's medical benefits.
W.T.F. HAPPENED?
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Alexander LeGuerrier Lewis-Goodwin likes this.
Shelley Adrienne Mimi Belsky We are no longer "personnel"
We are "Human Resources"
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Best Buy Hi Shelley -
Best Buy is still committed to our GLBT customers and employees. Our donation to MN Forward was not intended to offend anyone, but rather support their concern on issues important to the company and retail industry. Thank you ...
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Shelley Adrienne Mimi Belsky The problem is, your actions will have repercussions for the GLBT community if Mr. Emmer wins.
Surely you understand that?
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This gives me a unique opportunity to try to get this company to see our point.

For Further Reference,the current situation:

US- GenderID group health care

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http://www.genderid.org/transintersex-health-resources.html

"We are contracting with Cigna Health and Blue Cross-Blue Shield, as a non profit to offer coverage to people as long as they are either listed members or associates of Gender ID Coalition. The coverage includes therapy, hormones, sex reassignment surgery at our direction as plan(s). This coverage follows the models founded by AARP and UCLA and other University systems' alumnus-associate coverage. We will continue the push to finalize this."


Has anyone signed up for this or gotten the information?

Name Choices and Ethnicity/Language

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Hi everyone,

So I'm (possibly) ftm and toying with going by a male name and pronouns at college in the fall. Of course, choosing a name is one of the stumbling blocks I've come across. In general when introducing myself as male, I go by Simon, but sometimes it feels kind of incongruous, because while I'm an American / native-English-speaker, my parents are from India and my birthname is an Indian one, originally Sanskrit. Plus I guess I "look" Indian whatever that means. I'm defo not white, etc.

Do any of you have this second-generation experience, or whatever? I rarely identify as Indian -- it's just an occasional vague sense of heritage more than anything, and a rationalizing of my parents' uptightness -- but I keep wavering on whether or not I should pick an Indian boy name. It's just one of those things that's sort of a part of me but sort of not, you know?

Just lookin' around for other people's experiences and so on. Obviously only I can decide for myself...just wondering how others dealt with this. Did you end up choosing a name that matched your heritage/ethnicity or your current nationality/language? How did you come to that decision?

Thanks!

S