Your Name

[poptart]

Just wondering what is a "female side" and a "male side"?

[Constance]

Just wondering what is a "female side" and a "male side"?

The fe/male side options might be aimed at the cross-dresser, bigender, androgyne, and non-binary gendered folks here at Susan's. Originally, I identified as androgyne and my "female side" was named Donna Alvote (Italian for "lady at times").

Since I'm out everywhere else in my lift, I recently changed my display name to my real name: Connie Anne.

It's not my legal name yet, but it is my real name.

[Gretchen]

When I was ten or eleven I was haveing a very serious conversation with Gretchen about marriage and haveing children. Gretchen did not want kids or to be married, but I wanted both. By the end of this short very serious ten year old conversation I not only wanted Gretchen's name but I wanted to be her too. Well I got her name and with the aid of modern science I got few other things too, Thanks Gretchen.

[Pica Pica]

Oddly was not born as Pica Pica... I took it on a whim when I joined the site because of the m->-bleeped-<-ie rhyme.

[themanicbard]

Clearly my name isn't really The Manic Bard, it's Link. But I picked The Manic Bard because it's the name I wanted to use as my stagename for when I do circus stuff. But I haven't done any of that in months.

[Padma]

My name is Padmavyuha (I was ordained as a Buddhist 15 years ago) and means 'an array of lotuses' (and rhymes with panther-view-her). And it's gender-neutral, and it's my legal name, and I want to keep it. I often spare people the last 2 syllables until we know each other well .

I'm been confused recently, though, because last summer, during a singing camp, I met the little girl in me who never had a voice (or a name) - I told her she could choose a name, and a few days later, she told me her name is Na'ama. This is a Hebrew name, meaning 'pleasant, gracious, lovely'.

It's not my name, it's hers - the girl who got kept in a coma to protect her from the abuse the boy was getting. So I'm not taking this as my name as a woman, but it's still very meaningful to me. If I ever decide to stop being Padmavyuha, I will become Na'ama, I suspect. But I'm very happy to be Padmavyuha.

At yafah, Na'ama xx

[April92]

I said "(MTF) the name of my female side" since I love the name April and I use it on lots of the websites that I join. However I might end up using Ashley when the time comes to change my name, it just sounds better with my full name and it's easier for me to pronounce

[Dane]

It's the middle name I've chosen. Not legal yet.

[VelvetBat]

My name is a nickname I made up myself.
About 10 years ago I came up with this name and I have been using it all around the internet ever since.

[Cade]

I voted that my screen name is my masculine side. I'm hoping it sounds a little androgynous.

[auburnAubrey]

When i went to choose a name, I looked at names that were being used to name girls in the year of my birth (1969).  I wanted mine to be appropriate for my age.  Aubrey was still a newer name for girls then, so it was a little unusual.  (It's origins are male, and there are still men named Aubrey today.... go figure).  And it flows with my last name.  So I kept going on with it in my head, and it made sense and felt right....

I was not going to have a middle name, but when i was filling out the name change paperwork, I suddenly thought of my mom, who is still having some problem with this.  (Still a lot of guilt, still not really wanting to lose her son, but still loves me very much).  So I called her up and asked her if it would be ok to take her name as my middle name, as an homage to her.  She was very touched and cried a little (happy, not sad).  So suddenly, I was Aubrey Patricia.   

[Shang]

I chose the FtM option, but that's because there wasn't a real one for me.  I asked my friends for an androgynous first name and my friend came up with "Lynn" and I fell for it.  The middle name was always going to be Gabriel because I've always felt drawn to it.  The name "Lynn Gabriel" seems a nice androgynous name so I use it on this forum.

[JayKyle]

It's part of my FtM name. I've started going by Jayden Tyler or Jayden "Kyle" (O.O I might have just given something away) so I shortened it for my user name.

[Morty]

Morty, which is short for Mortimer, is a name I've used most of my life. It started off as a bit fo a silly joke... I am apprenticing as a mortician, and mortuary sciences are something I've been interesting in most of my life... people would call me 'Mort', which essentially means death in french, to my knowledge.
I like the sound of the name Mortimer, so I've just used it.
My family is Doukhobor Russian, and my actual name is strange and quite a mouthful. (It's Aijia.) Though that name is uni-sex, I still rather dislike it, and it sounds too feminine to me.
Some people still call me by that name, though, but mostly close friends and family.

[Jamie D]

Morty, which is short for Mortimer, is a name I've used most of my life. It started off as a bit fo a silly joke... I am apprenticing as a mortician, and mortuary sciences are something I've been interesting in most of my life... people would call me 'Mort', which essentially means death in french, to my knowledge.
I like the sound of the name Mortimer, so I've just used it.
My family is Doukhobor Russian, and my actual name is strange and quite a mouthful. (It's Aijia.) Though that name is uni-sex, I still rather dislike it, and it sounds too feminine to me.
Some people still call me by that name, though, but mostly close friends and family.

So, are you Canadian by birth? 

[Morty]

So, are you Canadian by birth?

Yes, I am~
Why do you ask?

[Jayr]

My butt was not very creative.

My name is Jayden R******

So I made it short. JayR

It's also a nickname. Lots of friends call me J-R.

[Renee D]

Its my real, legal name, but I'm registered here under my middle name which is Renee.

[Marion]

Marion is a name I've chosen for online while I transition. It's based on a female persona I developed when younger (and I thought I had to 'pretend' to be a girl) named Mary.

A friend of mine presented me with a list of names he thought worked for me, and it was on there, so I figured it must actually work for me, if we both thought of it.

[Jamiep]

James is my real name, most friends call me Jim, so I just decided to go by what I thought is the female version being Jamie.