Woah heck okay first of all of the “hate the sin love the sinner” quote is from Hamilton I already love you. Okay okay sorry I’m awkward. So second of all, I’m having a reeeeallllly hard time picking my name?? Like my partner used Aaron for me (we had too many Alex’s when my name was such at the time) and it stuck and I liked it and so does everyone else but I need a more masculine name to get away from some of my femininity that’s left since I know a lot of transphobes and I’m dying. Help?? 😭
god, I feel so terrible that I didn’t get to answer this ask when it was actually relevant– please accept my absolute sincerest apologies @thenewtransactivists ;0;
but to answer the question as if it were still relevant, just for the sake of answering it– I personally love the name Aaron/Erin/etc (the way it is pronounced out loud) because it is ambiguous in the sense that it isn’t necessarily a unisex name, inherently– but said aloud, it could be either be interpreted as “Aaron” in the masculine sense, “Erin” in feminine, or a name I tried going by for a while, “Arin”, which I considered to be unisex (I LOVE that name tbh, but by the point I tried using it, people had already pretty much rebranded me as ‘Niko’ for good hahah), or simply bungle the listener to the point where they’re unsure, and give up on assuming your gender?
I am so, so sincerely sorry I was too late to answer your question, and I hope you’ve gotten everything worked out into a better situation, name-wise (I’m checking out your page in a second~), please feel free to message me again if you’d like to chat sometime!! We seem to have some in common, I’d love to get acquainted sometime~
