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aidenonymous) wrote2010-05-19 12:08 am
aidenonymous) wrote2010-05-19 12:08 am
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I said this thing the other day that I rather liked. . .
In response to a post in the 
community regarding how to choose a trans name:
It's never too late to have a fresh start because people will give you a lot of slack to experiment and "find yourself" in college. I'm actually in just about the same phase of transitioning as you are. I've been slowly coming out as genderqueer for the past couple years as I've been learning that there are words for all this stuff online. I actually decided to make this LJ account when it occurred to me that I'd already picked out a name, so it was time to take myself seriously when it came to exploring my gender identity.
I thought about using the same name my parents told me they would have given me had I not been born female. Oddly, they chose a religious, unusual, and feminine name for if I'd been female and a non-religious, common, and androgynous name for me if I'd been male. As a kid, I wished that I'd gotten the other name. I've been cringing at the sound of my birth name for a long time, and not just because of the confusion with spelling and pronunciation that most people have with it. But I do appreciate having an unusual name. I feel like I wouldn't be true to my own experiences, especially that of rejecting the religion I was raised with, if I just erased the name and started off with a new one without the same connotations. So I'm experimenting on the 'net with a masculine form of one of my birth names. So far so good!
community regarding how to choose a trans name:It's never too late to have a fresh start because people will give you a lot of slack to experiment and "find yourself" in college. I'm actually in just about the same phase of transitioning as you are. I've been slowly coming out as genderqueer for the past couple years as I've been learning that there are words for all this stuff online. I actually decided to make this LJ account when it occurred to me that I'd already picked out a name, so it was time to take myself seriously when it came to exploring my gender identity.
I thought about using the same name my parents told me they would have given me had I not been born female. Oddly, they chose a religious, unusual, and feminine name for if I'd been female and a non-religious, common, and androgynous name for me if I'd been male. As a kid, I wished that I'd gotten the other name. I've been cringing at the sound of my birth name for a long time, and not just because of the confusion with spelling and pronunciation that most people have with it. But I do appreciate having an unusual name. I feel like I wouldn't be true to my own experiences, especially that of rejecting the religion I was raised with, if I just erased the name and started off with a new one without the same connotations. So I'm experimenting on the 'net with a masculine form of one of my birth names. So far so good!