No but there's a couple subtlies here. If you are calling someone brave, the context is important. It can come off as condescending. Also coming out isn't an all or nothing thing, see here.
Also in this comic they aren't saying they are brave for coming out. They are saying they are brave for being cis. The underlying assumption there being that being cis or trans is a choice that one can be brave for.
People have answered already, but yes, candidate names appear on ballots. You can see an example ballot for Minnesota here.
Image description: Fake Facebook post made by a user named "Dwarves, Elves, & Men". The user icon is of Aragorn. The post is of an image of a balrog taken from the films. The balrog is holding its hands up in front of its head and it's body is engulfed in flames. A book is photoshopped between its hands making it appear to be reading it. The book is titled "How to Pass".
Image description: Xitter post by Rina, Princess of Transylvania @ContradictoRina
If I'm a trana girl, and you are also a trans girl, does that make us....
Attached image of multiple transistors.
Image description: Dracula concept art from Castlevania sits in the bottom left corner. Text is spaced out in the remaining of the space
Text:
Dracula says:
You only need two things to be a man...
Surveillance, recon and range of weapons has drastically changed. Satellites have the capability to identify a surface fleet and long range weapons are now able to be fired from long distances, find and hit their targets.
I think a couple submarines can effectively negate a carrier task force by just forcing the task force to keep their distance by the threat of a missile launch coming from a patch of seemingly empty see. Any surface ship hunting them is at risk of suddenly becoming the hunted themselves by the submarine or by any land based defense system that are in range.
Do they need to be able to fight across the entire Pacific? Their most likely adversaries are right next door and their most likely ally is the dominant naval power already.
I any money spent on a large carrier would probably be better spent on other things. You can spend 10 billion on a single carrier or get a fleet of ~100 F-35s. I would guess mid-air refueling and more planes will get more sorties over likely targets in a conflict than a carrier would.
I also don't think carriers are going to be the dominant sea power force in a future peer conflict. I think the submarine will dominate the next war. The carrier will be regulated to power projection after the sea is won and made safe to operate in.
Here's the goodreads page for it. It looks like it'll either be extremely good or just fail horribly. I'm definitely going try to read it now.
Image description: Text above a movie still.
Me: transfem but pre-HRT and presenting androgynous in public
Cashier: Hi girls...and boy....or whatever
Me: [Movie still from Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. The two alien viceroys are standing in a city on Naboo. There is a squad of droids standing in loose formation in the background. The closed caption reads, "Ah victory"]
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Twitter post by flat rylan @testosteronejew
My boyfriend and I do our t-shots together, call that my chemical romance
Reply by maya @buckaro02
Me and the boys shooting eachother up with our gender drugs
Reply by flat rylan @testosteronejew
As god intended
Image description: A social media post with the text "dudes want anime girls to be real but won't put on a skirt and thigh highs to find the anime girl inside themselves" and a response with the text "what if the real anime girl was the hormones we took along the way?"
Images description: Trad Girl meme on the left and Yes Chad meme on the right. Text is under both of them.
Text under Trad Girl: Noooo you can't just become a hot guy like that, what about your chromosomes, have you even read a biology textbookarino??
Text under Yes Chad: haha testosterone machine go brrrrrrrrrrr
Image description: A leather wrapped shifter for a transmission. A finger is pointing to a button on the base. The button is labeled "power" when pressed and "normal" when unpressed.
Image description: Four panels depicting flag designs on arrows pointing in a direction. The top left panel is labeled British ups and has the British flag on arrows pointing up. Top right is labeled French lefts and has the French flag on left pointing arrows. Bottom left is labeled German downs and has the German flag on downward pointing arrows. The bottom right panel is unlabeled and has the trans flag pointing right.
Image description: Sailor moon looking at the viewer saying something passionately.
Top text: Trans people be like "I don't pass"
Bottom text: Bitch this is not the time for that, if you don't go past these slow ass SUVs we're gonna be late
Nope. But it might get old the nth time or if you didn't do something you think should of outed you.
It's kind of the paradox of being stealth. If you are successful no one notices. So you don't get feedback that you are successful.