Say if someone came up to you and asked “If you were a boy/girl what would your name be?” could you answer them without needing think or is that not something most people give a thought to?
Say if someone came up to you and asked “If you were a boy/girl what would your name be?” could you answer them without needing think or is that not something most people give a thought to?
I don’t know a lot of trans people.
Do they usually pick the opposite-gender-version of their birth name? Seems like many do not.
Most do not.
Are they just being creative though, or are they purposefully making it very different?
Do they think just a slight name change will be seen as a joke or temporary?
I’ve never had to think about the mental process of choosing my own name, but I like the feminine version enough for now.
But if it was a really important thing for me to distinguish my identity separate from my birth name, that might change my decision.
But I’ve only considered it on the surface, like “what if I woke up at a Halloween party wearing a dress”, or doing a dare/forfeit kind of thing.
I’m thinking that a huge portion of the trans community came out of circumstances where they’re shamed for it, and might choose to distance themselves from that whole part of their life.
So I totally get it, but from a surface-level consideration, I wouldn’t mind the femme version of my name.