When speaking with a transgender person, or even about a trans person, talking about their past can feel dicey. What pronouns do you use? Can…
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Tag: name change
When you receive spam mail addressed to your dead name, but now that name is alien to you. “What’s this postman? Who is this individual?”
When your updated birth certificate, reflecting your true name and gender, finally arrives in the mail. Yup, most definitely squealing on the inside.
When a co-worker, who previously struggled to say your name and pronouns consistently, has reached the stage of not even remembering your old name, and…
When it had been the case, with your birth name, that people want to call you by a nickname. Doesn’t matter how often you introduce…
When you receive your court order of name change, so you run off to the first place on your list to change your name legally:…
When someone says your birth name, you perk up, realize they weren’t talking to you, and then chide yourself for still responding to that name.
When you feel official walking into the courthouse to hand in your name-change petition form.
When people call you by the name you’ve chosen, but it takes your brain a minute to register they’re talking to you.
At long last, after sifting through the piles and getting tangled in cobwebs during the trial-runs, I have decided on the shining nugget that is…