I think that in a rational society everyone should feel free to choose their name, and doing so should be a normal and expected rite of passage.

It makes way more sense to choose the sound people make when they refer to you, than having your parents choose it for you before you’re even a person yet.

  • yuli [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    tbh, i like that my name was chosen before i was born. that way, aside from things like ethnicity and gender, it’s pretty much disconnected from who i am.

    when i came out as trans and had to pick a new name i hated that i already had all these associations with them and i dreaded someone asking me why i picked those in particular. in the end i settled on two names my parents picked as girl names before i was born (which looking back i had already identified somewhat with when i first heard them as a kid).