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Community Conversation => Transsexual talk => Female to male transsexual talk (FTM) => Topic started by: 4736251 on March 05, 2014, 11:10:43 AM

Title: I passed...even with my feminine name?
Post by: 4736251 on March 05, 2014, 11:10:43 AM
My name isn't legally changed, so most people in my English class know me by my birth name.  It's kinda gender-neutral, but more on the feminine side.  Last night there was an online assignment where we would correct eath others' essays.  And in their review of my essay, one of the students refered to me as "he".   :icon_geekdance:
Title: Re: I passed...even with my feminine name?
Post by: Adam (birkin) on March 05, 2014, 04:02:04 PM
That's awesome!  ;D I find that people's first impressions are very hard to shake - for example, with a male name, if people saw me as female, it just could never cross their minds that I was male. They saw female and they couldn't see anything else.
Title: Re: I passed...even with my feminine name?
Post by: Calder Smith on March 05, 2014, 04:02:56 PM
Wow, that's great! I guess your appearance must really pass then. :)
Title: Re: I passed...even with my feminine name?
Post by: King Malachite on March 05, 2014, 06:17:22 PM
Congrats! :)
Title: Re: I passed...even with my feminine name?
Post by: GnomeKid on March 06, 2014, 11:42:50 AM
Hah thats awesome.  That happened to me a lot pre-T and even pre-trans.  I got a lot of "thats an interesting name for a guy"

clearly never minded it =p