My birth name has always been gender neutral. I have a weird relationship with gender and don't like norms to begin with. My parents did a very good job of naming me. Sounds like your parents did a good job of naming you too

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Jankatarch 2 points 6 months ago

Ooh a similar thing here.

My birthname is a pretty rare gender-neutral one where I am from, but an extremely common girls' name in the country it originated from :3

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essell 22 points 6 months ago

Last trans girl I knew was called "Alexis" - the surname was even more posh Victorian! 😁

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yetAnotherUser 6 points 6 months ago

Does that name have a feminine/gender neutral association in your language/culture? Feels like a Greek masculine name to me. As in: Alexis Tsipras, the (male) Greek prime minister.

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PanGodofPanic 8 points 6 months ago

In most English speaking societies, it's an almost exclusively female form of the name.

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essell 4 points 6 months ago

General femme association and strong upper-class association!

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 6 months ago

Alexis/Alexander is a common trans name choice here (bay area, California, Statesia), since (my presumption) you can go by Alex and slip into stealth mode as necessary. I'm sure that's just one of the considerations that goes into choosing a name, I have not really done it and not for those reasons. A whopping twenty(ish) percent of the trans folk I know chose Alex variations, one because their name was already Alex and one because they like the name Alex. We haven't gotten more into it than that.

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applebusch 19 points 6 months ago

Just call me Slutty McSlutFace, least successful slut in the west.

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 6 months ago

I think I see your problem.

Bad shoes.

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cadekat 17 points 6 months ago

I have one of those easily gender swappable names (like Sam), but I'm not sure I will/would want to do use it. Picking a whole new name seems part of the journey?

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Amnesigenic 16 points 6 months ago

It doesn't have to be entirely new, the short form of my new name is only one vowel different from the short form of my old name. I like the idea that transition doesn't necessarily entail completely abandoning your former identity, some parts of it can be salvaged to build a new one, also this way my initials don't change so my old email still works lol

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cadekat 4 points 6 months ago

Heh, that's a good point. I did just switch everything over to an email with my current name in it...

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emeralddawn45 11 points 6 months ago

Me: don't call me

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homologous 10 points 6 months ago

"wow that's a unique name where'd it come from?" me: "oh haha idrk it doesn't really have any meaning" reality: it was extracted from a keysmash on discord.

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atopi 7 points 6 months ago

all of the best names and most of the best genders i have seen are from plural trans people

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point 6 months ago

Like, us they/them people? Or polygender folk? It's not so much gender with me. I'm just weird.

My identity technically encompasses two names. Both are current and active. The one my parents gave me and then... Well, my gut is very very loud. It farts at people without my consent. Last night it got in an argument with my wife (all through farts) and I (or at least my brain) agreed with my wife. It named itself. Yes, via farts, but it was very clear what its name is (it likes the Muppets). As a clue to its name (and I will say yes to every guess, but I will be proud of you if you guess right just it won't really be productive)

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atopi 2 points 6 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_identity

as far as i know, it isnt directly connected to gender

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point 6 months ago

Oh yeah I know a few people. Rather, I'm part of a community where that pops up with such alarming regularity one dude I know (who had it and unfortunately is not with us anymore) swore that he was part of a government program to make plural identities.

Edit: also thank you for taking the time to explain

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dejected_warp_core 2 points 6 months ago

In my head, " r̸̯͌͜͠o̷̫̹̓́c̷̺͈͊͊̀͝k̷̳̬̦̓ " is pronounced like a beastie-boys lyric.

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germanatlas 2 points 6 months ago

ROCK AND STONE

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DragonTypeWyvern 1 point 6 months ago