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egg_irl — Memes about being trans people in denial and other eggy topics

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!egg_irl is for widely relatable memes about questioning one's gender or being an egg (a trans person in denial) as well as other eggy topics.

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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

My Kurdish birth-name is a boys' name in Turkish and a girls' name is Kurdish.

Except my genius self still used their explicitly male middle-name for all online accounts.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

IMHO a middle name feels very much like a last name to me, in that the gender doesn’t really matter to most people. I’ve met plenty of cis people with a gendered middle name that doesn’t match their gender.

Granted it matters more in some cultures than others, and I’m absolutely not trying to tell you how to feel about it. I’m just letting you know that if you stuck with it, it wouldnt be that outside the norm.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Aww thank you, I feel better now :3

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Good thing I'm cis because the mail I use for everything is literally "namesurname".

And fun fact: in Italy, your "fiscal code" (which is like a social security number) is computed from name, sex, place of birth, and time of birth, so when you change name (or assigned sex), that changes as well. I think it's opt-in and you could keep your dead name and assigned sex on it... But...

[–] N0tTr0xy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago

German pension insurance number does that as well. It has gender in it, but only first letter of the name.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 18 hours ago

exactly why my nickname was flitzy :3

[–] quantumgenderino@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pissman2020 was an S tier username, but it's not for me anymore

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

what about Pisscreature2026?

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, that was me, my username has always been tanisnikana, cause Tanis Nikana is the name I had at birth. Eventually I decided changing it is too hard. Just kept it.

[–] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From the perspective of an international audience, the name sounds fairly unisex. Is it actually gendered in your own language?

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Parents were white Americans on an Air Force base in rural Japan. They gave me an Irish boy’s name that would be reasonably smooth in katakana. I transitioned to female at 28, kept it, pronunciation and spelling (タニス) and all. A lot of people think my last name is Japanese too, but it isn’t. I’m not sure where it came from. I learned English when I moved to America when I was 11. Most people don’t know I can speak Japanese from looking at me.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

And given that you grew up with Japanese you probably speak it quite well, to the surprise of most Japanese.

[–] minty@aussie.zone 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thank god discord you can change your display name and even username. I would have had to make a new account.

unfortunately, it's also discord

I chose this username as a kid and… uh… it kinda worked out.