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than how I feel. Telling me that it's good that my chosen name is neutral-sounding, that it's good my body is not extremely feminine, that it's good I haven't come out at work (yet). Telling me that maybe I should stop being (trying to be) myself and wait until other doctors and therapists decide I can. I'm fed up of all of that. Sometimes it makes me fight even more. Sometimes it makes me want to end it all and stop my life right here. Sometimes it just makes me want to cry. I wish I could see any hope on the horizon. I wish I could hear another answer than “some day, eventually, it's gonna be better”. I wish I could feel alive today, at this moment.
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Olympiad in Beijing (competing with 152 competitors from 28 countries). The jury awarded 41 individual medals (7 gold, 13 silver and 21 bronze) and 9 prizes for the best solved tasks. Milo scored 84 points (the next competitors on the podium, from the US and Canada, scored 81 and 73 points respectively) and the prize for the best solved problem.
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In the school year 2013/2014, as a student from the 1st High School in Złotów, Mazurkiewicz won the final of the 12th
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I'm fed up. I'm fed up with being treated like a piece of shit. I'm fed up with people (psychologists, doctors, therapists) telling me I can't be who I am because I don't look like that. Treating me as if it was all in my head and telling me I need papers proving it. Caring more about how I dress
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124:. They received a scholarship from the Minister of National Education, graduating in 2017 with a degree in computer science. They were known for their humorous invention of the mathematical constant "ęć", where
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A fund for transgender women and transfeminine individuals in Poland has been set up in
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Information about their death appeared on May 17 on the
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in Poland, saying in a public speech "why should anyone tell me what to look like? Who can I feel and who not? I feel as if my genitals belong to the state!".
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