Being Counted - Would You?

[Guest Donna Jean]

Some paranoia is founded....

Some is unfounded........

I suggested to my wife that we do our banking online instead of writing checks and going to the bank to move money between accounts...

She didn't want to ....

I asked her why not?

"Well", she said..."They would get our password and maybe take our money!"

I told her that they already have our money and our password!

*sigh*

Donna Jean

[Guest Jean Davis]

I will have to agree with Dee Jay, if they're interested in you they have the resources to find out more about you than you know about yourself.

Everything that you do now a days is over the internet or caught on camera whether you know it or not. The only way that you can get away from this is to live your life in isolation out in a deserted part of a world. No one that I know is willing to do that so we just have to acept it and try to work it to our advantage.

LUV

Jean

[Sally]

Well I see your point, but then Donna Jean does live out there in the area you described.

I have no real problem with answering census questions because basically they are just confirming what they already know!

On the other hand just because you are paranoid does not mean that they aren't out yo get you.

I plan to answer those questions so that they will know that I am here and I will be counted.

Love ya,

Sally

[Guest Victoriaf]

I would answer proudly.

Victoria

[Guest Joanna Phipps]

For those who wouldnt answer truthfully think about this.

Are you in full transition and:

• Have you changed your name legally?
  
• have you updated your SSN (or its equivalent)?
  
• have you updated your driver's license>
  
• Does your pharmacy put your female name on your prescription bottle but bill your insurance in your male name?
  

Going through the process of transition and thinking that the gov't doesn't know you are trans simply by falsely answering two questions on a census is naive. Someone running the right sql script against the database could, simply by virtue of your ssn or other national id card, find out all they need to know about you. By the way, if you get caught giving false answers on a US census it is a criminal offence.

For us MTF's while estrogen is OCCASIONALLY used to treat prostate cancer the combination of Sprio and Estrogen is a dead giveaway that you are trans.

Face it brothers and sisters, they already know of us and know who we are so what is answering falsely two questions on a census going to prove?

[Guest Isobelle Fox]

I have no problem answering this honestly, and if asked I would. But I still don't care for the idea personally. The idea that a proper count will ensure or even possibly increase the likelihood that we will be given recognition or more rights doesn't add up for me. That might be the way things _should_ work, but its not the way they DO work. And yes, I am just paranoid enough to think that the information would just as likely be used against as for us.