Names

[Princess Rachel]

My first and last name is actually the pen name I was experimenting with for a few short stories that never got published, my middle name is the feminised version of my original middle name.

Rachel Georgina Morgan

[MarinaM]

Everyone asked me whether I would be changing my name, I said I didn't know. Everyone I know just happens to know a girl named Ryan, so they didn't understand why I would want to change it.

Uhhhhhh... Ryan means King.  I'm not fit to rule

Emma is a family name, one that had not been passed down yet, so I took it after my mother suggested that I do so.
Emma means entire. That's a better fit.

I have no designs on changing my last name.

[inna]

When I have decided that enough is enough and if I am to stay here on this planet, I am going to embrace my true self, of course first thing I did is find the name I can hide behind

Yeah, call me chicken, but that was my cowardly thinking 3 years ago and so I have chosen derivative of my company's name which came out to Alexia Elliot except companies name was Alexander, so you get the idea, package comes, employee signs for it, makes goofy face and says, Sir, they made that same mistake again, can you believe that is already 3 times this week. Good think non of the packages came with the label

Somehow it worked, or so I think?

Since the beginning though a nice name of INNA kept on resonating with me and it also had a meaning for me, in my native language, Polish, it means "Different girl" .
I loved the sound and as of lately after my reveal and some growing up I started to use it. I love the choice and the meaning, because forever I shall remain a "Different Girl" but girl nevertheless!!!!!!

[toxicblue]

While I think it would be awesome to choose a name, I knew the name my parents would have given me if I was born bio female, and that's Alyssa.  Because I know that, and names generally aren't chosen, I've accepted that name, and I kind of like it too.

[Jenna_Nicole105]

I simply liked the sound of this first name and middle name together.. nothing fancy in my case, just came to me one night.

I'm undecided on changing my last name.

On one hand I feel it would make things a lot easier in terms of a fresh start and the like.

on the other hand:

Part of me me feels it would be disrespectful, especially seeing how I've been lucky enough to have a fully supportive family up to this point... and my entire immediate family now knows as well as a large portion of my non immediate family.

Just don't know, though I am leaning toward indeed changing my last name and would do so if forced to decide right this second. I think and hope that if I were to come to that decision that my family would understand why I felt the need.

I've thought about possibly going with my mother's maiden name if I switch my last name as both a way to honor my late mother who passed away from stomach cancer and additionally as a way to still have a link of sorts to my current last name.

[Karynm8621]

As far as picking a first name, I didn't want to do the classic thing of just using the feminine version of my old name.  I find that too tacky.

Ouch

[lauren3332]

I chose the name Lauren.  I do not really know why.  I have always used this name pretty much.  Lauren just seemed to fit.  The name does not sound overly feminine, but it is definitely not masculine at all.  I did not want to use a female version of my name.  I do not think there is a female version of the name Jason.     

[Ashley_C]

While I think it would be awesome to choose a name, I knew the name my parents would have given me if I was born bio female, and that's Alyssa.  Because I know that, and names generally aren't chosen, I've accepted that name, and I kind of like it too.

I love the name Alyssa. It's adorable.

[Moxie F.]

well I don't think I'm MTF but say a magic wizard appears and turns me into a full on woman, after a lot of you express your jealousy of my situation :p , I would go as Moxie Fox for the rest of my womanly life and that is my female side's name I have adopted being I've always liked Moxie as a girls name and Fox, not being my current last name, identified me with an animal I feel a deep spiritual connection with ^.^