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Naming myself was super weird, because I don't really call myself anything. My brain never has internal dialogue like, "well, [name], we're really in it now".

My short list of names were all inspired by favorite characters: Garrett, Tristan, and Siegfried were in the top 5, along with the masculine versions of both my old first name and middle name (so, "James" and "Nicholas").

I would like to respectfully disagree.

My deadname is female, with two syllables, and complicated vowels. White people LOVE this name. They refuse to use the one syllable diminutive, despite it being a whopping three letters and very easy to say. The Long Name Full Of Vowels is a gender marker of white womanhood, as if I was some kind of Tolkein Elf. (You see this also in MMOs, in Mary Sue fics. It was especially prevalent among Millennials when the LOTR movies first came out.)

Congrats, OP, for choosing a male name and enjoying the gendering that comes with people accepting a short name full of consonants for you. I am thoroughly jealous and hope to be able to afford a legal name change at some point in my life.

Deltarune tomorrow or something

Deltarune tomorrow or something

Deltarune tomorrow or something

when considering the sexual violence against trans women, it's important to remember that "people only view us sexually" does not mean the same thing as "people only find us attractive". it means "people can only conceptualize of our existence within a sexual light" because that's how the majority of our coverage in media has been tinged in the past century. as a result of the chaste and patriarchal nature of modern capitalism, gender and sexuality are inseparable in much public discourse by virtue of propaganda, and as a result, a trans woman is seen as sexual because efforts towards projecting specifically femininity is only categorized as sexual. and when paired with the uncharitable perception of "man", that propaganda can often evolve how people view us directly into "sexual threat" anywhere, for any reason. i could be in the freezer aisle of costco looking down at the ground while i push my cart and i'd still get dirty looks for wearing a dress (this has happened).

when i say "they're either jerking off or sharpening a knife", i mean we're either viewed sexually, or as sexually threatening, in almost all scenarios.

now they fucking flinch because oooo the dangerous tranny freak is approaching