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Gotta hand it to her, it's done wonders for recognition. No one's mistaking the name.
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Not a gender-identity thing, but I met my best friend when I was 12. We didnt have any classes together so I never heard his name called out in the register.
Wasn't until we were having a drink at 18 that I realised I didnt actually know his real name.
The main difference is that nobody considers referring to Whoopi Goldberg as Caryn Elaine Johnson a hate crime.
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This one is a hard one, as a cis-gender male, I don't go by my real name. If someone calls me by my birth name I wouldn't even know they were referring to me.
I think its more to do with gender rather than names, that and the will to be cruel, of course.
Yeah, I go by my middle name and nobody thinks it's weird.
The only people that call me by my middle name are my... estranged family. So its sort of an insult in a way. Weird how that works out.
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I recently learned that Charlie Sheen's birth name is Carlos Irwin Estévez.
Yep, he adopted the stage name of his father, Martin Sheen (Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez).
Everyone always forgets the brother who kept his name, Emilio Estevez.
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That's the problem.
Gender change is a premium feature, how dare ypu, peasant!
The only people that have a problem with people changing gender is religious people that think that a fictional god assigned them a gender at birth, because their god knows and controls everything, so can never, ever, ever, ever be wrong about anything. Ever. Like a person's gender. So they hate everyone that questions their fictional hate book. Because it takes them a lot of work to live in that weird, fictional religious reality they want to so badly.
Be whatever gender you want to be. I'll call you whatever you want, but at least stick to it for a bit.
I've never encountered or noticed this problem that you mention.
I can't even see an issue with choosing a name that suits their gender, whatever that may be..
Is this really such a big deal irl?
Is this really such a big deal irl?
It is to the fascists.