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What’s In A Name When You Can Choose Your Own?

Started by Butterfly, August 13, 2010, 05:24:08 PM

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What's In A Name When You Can Choose Your Own?
The Frisky
Posted by: Julie Gerstein
13 August, 2010


http://www.thefrisky.com/post/246-whats-in-a-name-when-you-can-choose-your-own/


If you had your way, would you choose the name given to you at birth? For many transgender people, shedding their birth names and choosing a new name is a critical part of the female-to-male or male-to-female transition. Taking a new name marks the definitive end of their old self and the beginning of a new identity—but it's also plagued with problems.
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