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Community Conversation => Transsexual talk => Male to female transsexual talk (MTF) => Topic started by: ByeBye on December 26, 2011, 01:40:18 PM

Title: Not too happy being called Alexander!
Post by: ByeBye on December 26, 2011, 01:40:18 PM
I'm sick of it. It's insulting. It's the people who fully know but refuse to accept. I love them, family, but I cannot stand being called by my body's old boy name.

How do you feel regarding being called by a male name?
Title: Re: Not too happy being called Alexander!
Post by: A_Dresden_Doll on December 26, 2011, 01:50:04 PM
In a perfect world, you could request, and people would abide. It took awhile for my friends to start calling me by my preferred name, but in the process, I learned that a name is a name. I am not changing who I am, so it really doesn't matter what people call me. I always asked them to just be mindful of pronouns, especially when we went out.

But sometimes you have to make them see that you are serious. I had to endure being "duded" and "sir'd" and "big guyed" for a year as I lost weight. You are going to have to bunker down for the long haul. If you really want to be taken seriously as a woman, start presenting as one. Or wait until you get some HRT under your belt. This is a long, hard, drawn-out process. Be patient, and be safe.
Title: Re: Not too happy being called Alexander!
Post by: Rabbit on December 26, 2011, 02:03:06 PM
I don't mind my name.

Eventually I may want to change it... but right now I figure why stress over something to small?

The same goes for pronoun usage and anything like that.

For me, I want people to use female names and pronouns when it comes to a point that using male ones just seem strange. I'm not going to get upset or try to force them to use things like that if they don't honestly see me that way.

You seriously can't force people to see you as a girl. All the tantrums and hurt feelings and crying in the world isn't going to make them suddenly change how they view you. Trying to force them to or feeling as if they should only makes them look at you as if you have completely lost your mind.

You seriously need to relax bebe...

Ask yourself if you felt this way 6 months ago... if the answer is no, then what changed? How are you suddenly a completely different person?