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a few months ago, I played a deck called girls at a local tournament. it was really fun and the next day I decided that I was allowed to call myself a woman.

two weeks ago, @AceEmpress and I played an updated version of girls at Bristol Regionals and went 6-1 between us: the highest winrate of a runner deck at that tournament. we were let down by our corp play though so didn't place as highly as that would suggest.

on Saturday, I judged a tournament at the same venue as that first tournament - Midlands Regionals. I couldn't play because of judging, but six other players brought that deck to the tournament - five of whom were in QEH, the local testing group which between us spent time improving the deck. four of the six made top cut, with a record of 13-4 between them. the grand finals was between two girls players (one of whom was @AceEmpress). this deck had the highest winrate at the tournament.

my little trans deck is suddenly a serious force in Netrunner, and it's hilarious. the identity card (the runner you're playing as) has basically never seen play until now (she was released in 2018) and now people are seriously thinking about changing their corp decks to help in the girls matchup. given that I don't think I've ever really touched the competitive scene until now, I am proud and bewildered in equal measure.

in short: girls wins (here's the deck, it has a silly meme in it so you should look)

This is one of the rare photos I'll be posting of myself here - I'm on the right, @l0velace is on the left and my partner @AceEmpress is taking the photo.

In true style, this photo was taken at a Netrunner tournament: yesterday's Nottingham Circuit Opener, in which I came 5th, missing the cut by 0.1 points of ESoS (Extended Strength of Schedule, the tiebreaker metric used when the normal tiebreaker isn't enough, with 0.1 being a tiny difference) which was annoying for roughly 0.2 seconds before becoming very funny. My decks were an Ob deck called paaaap and an Akiko deck called girls.

That's all I have to say about Netrunner in this post - if you're looking for competitive insight or Netrunner commentary, look at the decklists. The rest of this post is about my outfit, and thoughts about me, my transition and femininity.

A quick disclaimer: This is my experience and doesn't aim to set out anything about how femininity should be or anything like that. Below the cut there is discussion of medical transition being beneficial for me, but that doesn't mean that it's a requirement for trans people and is absolutely not a requirement of "womanhood" or "manhood" or similar.

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