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dolari30 Questions For Pride Month, Day 8: How did you choose your name, assuming you changed it from a birth name?
Originally, I chose "Marlene" which was a feminine form of my old name. After that, I considered Dana (after what I thought was a moon goddess) and Elizabeth (After a TV show character). In my early high school years, I went through a purge, where I got rid of everything feminine, and got wierd (most people go hyper-masculine, I went hyper-David Lynch character).
During this time I was writing a story about a man who was killed, and was put into a cloned body of a woman until such time as he can figure out how to clone his old body. He hates everything about it and spends several years trying to find his way back, complaining the whole way (Story wise, he makes it back after a few years). The name he chose was Jennifer.
I remember writing one particular rant in the story where he complains about all the changes, and one part stuck with me. "I don't even speak with my own voice anymore. It's not the voice in my head."
And that's when I realized I was writing (ironically, a gender swapped) me. I ended my purge and took the name myself.
My middle name? Christine? That's easy. I thought if I'd been born with the proper genetics and hormones I'd probably have looked like Christine McGlade of You Can Do That on Television.
What?! Not all trans stories are majestic.
https://twitter.com/gwenners/status/1399574609536503810
Originally, I chose "Marlene" which was a feminine form of my old name. After that, I considered Dana (after what I thought was a moon goddess) and Elizabeth (After a TV show character). In my early high school years, I went through a purge, where I got rid of everything feminine, and got wierd (most people go hyper-masculine, I went hyper-David Lynch character).
During this time I was writing a story about a man who was killed, and was put into a cloned body of a woman until such time as he can figure out how to clone his old body. He hates everything about it and spends several years trying to find his way back, complaining the whole way (Story wise, he makes it back after a few years). The name he chose was Jennifer.
I remember writing one particular rant in the story where he complains about all the changes, and one part stuck with me. "I don't even speak with my own voice anymore. It's not the voice in my head."
And that's when I realized I was writing (ironically, a gender swapped) me. I ended my purge and took the name myself.
My middle name? Christine? That's easy. I thought if I'd been born with the proper genetics and hormones I'd probably have looked like Christine McGlade of You Can Do That on Television.
What?! Not all trans stories are majestic.
https://twitter.com/gwenners/status/1399574609536503810
