Trans Memes

my butch great aunt born in the 1910's hated it and went by her middle name

SO I FUCKIN STOLE IT YOINK

I downloaded mine from a silly pink hedgie :3

I just kept asking people if I may have their names and they kept giving them to me

I was thinking about Satan on my walk and figured that "Lucy" is short for "Lucifer", and then was like "Lucy actually sounds pretty nice..."

I returned home and told about it with my friend (also trans) and she was like "wow so cool!!!!!" so I went with it. That's it :3

I kept my name. It's unisex, and a search of it on LinkedIn actually shows like a 70-30 split of female to male respectively. I'm comfortable with it and used to it and, living in the US rn, I don't want to deal with all the name change issues.

I used it since I was 13 on IRC ""catfishing"", well it was not catfishing actually, it was me expressing how I wanted to live, but I didn't realised at that time. Then, I came out at 27 and remembered those days and rescued the name.

read a cute reddit story where person asked mom to rename after transition.

I'm not sure I qualify for this (relevant username) but I do have two names I think about using if I ever crack my shell. One is just a name I always liked and one is part of an online pseudonym I used a long time (and that I still use sometimes) that has a totally different backstory, can be used kinda androgynously but is mostly used by women with one noticeable exception.

And no one is stopping anyone from choosing more than one name.

That honestly took me over 6 months. I tried a number of names on for size, but none felt quite right. The ones that felt right were in use by close family or friends. The one I really wanted is used by both my ex-wifes, so that would've been weird for the kids even if they're not kids anymore.

It was much easier picking out names for the kids actually. Otherwise I followed the advice I got to take a name that is sorta common in my age group so I went through all the lists multiple times until I decided. I now officially have a girl's name, even if I'm nowhere near passing. It isn't as bad in my country as in many others and I must say it went a lot better than I expected, but I'm still proud of myself. 😊

i didn pick my name......,,,,.,,,,..,.,.,. nt yet.., ;(

For a while when I was a kid I wondered what my name would be if I chose it myself and that was the only one that felt like it fit. Totally forgot about it until after my egg shattered and realized that it's gender-neutral and I really like the cutesy nickname/diminutive forms

I just took my birth name, shortened it and that happens to be gender neutral. Then I expanded it but the female version of the name.

i have no strong opinions on names. most probably i'll buy an -e and put it at the end. :)

I went "im a cat, i wanna be called Kat, what names start like that..." and liked Katrina

It came to me in English class when I was 17. At the time I was unsure of why I became attached to the name. A few years later I realised why (and that it was a cliche, but I was attached at that point). I let my parents pick my middle name so they could have some say in naming me.

I new my name 7 years before I new I was trans, I already ordered stuff on that name and my whole online persona was built around it. I even named my cat that. Even before I was out to myself I listened to that name way better than my dead name.

It’s sort of the femme version of my given name. There’s a lot of history in my family with that name that I do appreciate and value and want to feel connected to. I did a bunch of research into the names and language of where my family originated and found my new name and instantly fell in love with it. I remember sobbing after writing it down for the first time.

No.

I was chatting about names with my wife and she suggested it. Tried it out, it fit, and now I'm legally stuck with it :3

My partners have been calling me "Cat" for years 'cuz my fursona is feline. If I wanted to go through the hassle of changing my government name that's the one I'd pick, but I'd spell it with a 'k'.

I was lucky enough that my Mom has told me what I would have been named if I had been born a girl. I haven't come out as non-binary to her, but the knowledge is still lovely.

I made a list of (mostly bad) names and made a poll with my friends to see which one didn't suck

My "furname" was because I wanted something soft and creature-ish. My IRL chosen name (Petrichor/Petroglyph/Petra) was because again, I wanted something kinda creature-ish but could be shortened to something feminine.

I'm kinda jealous of a friend of mine tho. Her chosen name (Coral) is literally 10/10 and kinda fits her perfectly >.>

I wish I could come up with another name. For some reason, it just feels weird and almost wrong to name myself. That isn't judgement against people who have chosen their own names, it's my own awful hangups and I wish I had the confidence to pick something for myself and own it. So I guess I need a group of friends that know me and can help me pick one.

My real name is gendered af. And even before this awakening, I disliked it because everywhere I go, there'll always be other people with the same name as me. It's like my parents' generation just had no fucking imagination or originality. And it's people being named basic shit that leads to all of the Tragedeighs in the next generation as over compensation.

I started making a big list with checkboxes on it. I added things like nicknames and "boymode" nicknames where they applied. Then I went down the list and checked off the ones I didn't really like that much. Then I started saying them out loud one night, and my spouse would just say "no" to them and those were checked off the list. I have two left, now. I'm still open to suggestions from others, and I am asking people when I come out if they have suggestions. The hard part is that both of the names I like are either my spouse's initials or my mother's, and I can't stand my mother. One day I'll make the choice final, but I'm trying one of them out now. The clinic and hospital network I use has a field in my profile for "preferred name" and they actually use it, so it's in there for now.

Video game player, thru many (mmo)rpg genre, had to make many fantasy names. Went known thru most common one, then picked some irl name that was similar. (not related to my lemmy username).

It started as a joke (removing the D from my nickname, haha) and it stuck... So I had my new nickname and from there I tried to find a full name that could be abbreviated to my nickname, but I couldn't find one and told my cousin and my sister and both of them suggested the same name spontaneously and independently and I thought "wow I loved that name when I was young and my favourite character in my favourite show has the same name" and from there my brain kept it... It's perfect.

It’s a name that I saw online a handful of times and always thought was incredibly cool. Then came across it again recently trying to pick a name, while I was looking through related names, and it immediately became a top candidate. And it also works well in both German and English which is also something I wanted.

Codsworth from fo4 could say certain prerecorded pc names. Thus, I found out i preferred the name Assface

I stole mine from a Greek goddess. It is only part of her name though. This goddess also was known by Kori, so it actually seems like a perfect choice. (My chosen name isn't currently in my display name.)

Baby Name gen

I used this advanced search tool (particularly the community impressions) to select a name appropriate to my language and culture with the vibe I'm going for. I selected 10 names I liked and had the five people closest to me vote on them. There was a clear winner.

It was my FFXIV character's name first.