• Apytele@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    I keep telling my coworkers chosen names aren’t even really a “trans” thing. We work psychiatry so we get plenty of people that don’t want to be called by the name they share with the relative that beat them or whatever. There’s plenty of reasons to go by a different name!

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      4 months ago

      That’s not a reason many Republicans would accept though. They think being beaten by a relative is a good thing. Especially if the person being beaten is a child.

    • non_expert@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Yeah I’m trans and my wife is a cis lady and neither of our current legal names are our birth name. No one’s used my birth name for at least a decade but when we visit my in-laws I’m the only one who doesn’t call her by hers. Always amuses me when I stop to think about it.