For me Its quite simple. My brain decided it. Literally. The days I found out I’m trans, my brain would do this weird thing, where I could think about completely different stuff and suddenly my now chosen name would “fly” into my mental Field of View, like an asteroid in star wars or so. I told that name a close friend and 4 weeks later when we went to the club together I told him, that I will stick with it, because I didnt had a better idea (and it was the only name I really felt comfortable with).
I am not a the type of girl who is into gem/crystals but for some reason I just liked this particular name stuck in my brain when ever I was looking up crystal meanings cus I was really bored one day and wanted to understand what the hype around crystals was (still don’t really understand it but at least I got a name out of it).
It came to me in English class when I was 17. At the time I was unsure of why I became attached to the name. A few years later I realised why (and that it was a cliche, but I was attached at that point). I let my parents pick my middle name so they could have some say in naming me.
I went “im a cat, i wanna be called Kat, what names start like that…” and liked Katrina
No.
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Pointing a gun at us is a good way to trigger our demand avoidance. Just so you know.
Still very much pre-transition so idk if i will change my name in the future. Already go by the shortened version of my name, and its pretty neutral/unisex in the shortened form, so… shrug
It started as a joke (removing the D from my nickname, haha) and it stuck… So I had my new nickname and from there I tried to find a full name that could be abbreviated to my nickname, but I couldn’t find one and told my cousin and my sister and both of them suggested the same name spontaneously and independently and I thought “wow I loved that name when I was young and my favourite character in my favourite show has the same name” and from there my brain kept it… It’s perfect.
I dont get it
It’s a character from Attack on Titan. Iirc the character is called Sasha and she gets shouted at for eating a potato during a military drill. Her response is to offer the drill sergeant part of the potato. (Been a while since I watched AoT)
Yeah that’s it lol, I like feeding people.
It’s not really the reason, but she was at least part of what drew me to it, and it’s really funny tbh
Thanks
Its the first two letters of my deadname :')
i have no strong opinions on names. most probably i’ll buy an -e and put it at the end. :)
It’s a female version of my birth name, it can be shortened to Tam which is fun, plus I think it sounds cute.
Now if only I were able to actually use it, sigh…
When the queen died
I’m not sure I qualify for this (relevant username) but I do have two names I think about using if I ever crack my shell. One is just a name I always liked and one is part of an online pseudonym I used a long time (and that I still use sometimes) that has a totally different backstory, can be used kinda androgynously but is mostly used by women with one noticeable exception.
And no one is stopping anyone from choosing more than one name.
I just took my birth name, shortened it and that happens to be gender neutral. Then I expanded it but the female version of the name.
I removed the last 2 letters from my deadname
my butch great aunt born in the 1910’s hated it and went by her middle name
SO I FUCKIN STOLE IT YOINK
