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Us, do you mean you. insignificant person

 

I know what you mean, but I think it’s part of the “coming out” process. Similarly to when, in my experience, men come out as gay and begin to exude far more campness than they did when they were closeted. It’s difficult to say if they were repressing it prior to being out, or whether they now feel the need to fulfil a stereotype.
I don’t know that many trans people, but having spoken to some I think their trans self has to be hidden and to cope they create a new personality they feel fits them internally and because it’s so unlike their mundane personality they have had to live unhappily with for years, they tend to name their repressed inner personality something exotic.

I went to junior school with a lad who told anyone who would listen that he was an alien called Kornel from another world. Or something similar.

I think my point is, it takes all sorts to make a world, and if a person named from birth as John Smith feels the need to transition and wants to call themselves Desdemona De’Ath it doesn’t really hurt anyone.

 

You're right it doesn't and everything you say makes a lot of sense. It just bugs me a little because it makes it hard to think about anything else than the name of that makes sense. I'd never treat anyone any different for it though and actually someone I talk to a lot has got a very weird name (chosen by themselves) but it doesn't bother me at all and I don't even think of it as weird these days.

 

Considering my nickname at school was Psycho and people still called me it into my late 20s I don’t think I can judge

 

You've just mortally offended all Gen Zs on the board with your thoughtlessness.













please note, this was a moment of flippancy.....not for further debate, not got the energy

 

No different to talking about someone who's gender you don't know. Eg. if you've never seen them or spoken to them and they have a gender neutral name.