Edit: alt-text: Reddit post in r/TrueOffMyChest

Title: my friend just transitioned but I found out she’s naming herself Mildred. I wanna be supportive but, fucking Mildred?

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  • @f4hy
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    353 months ago

    I 100% support people to transition. I don’t think people should get to pick their own names without any veto.

      • THCDenton
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        393 months ago

        Only if they were hot. At least a nein.

          • Lemminary
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            43 months ago

            Yes, the civil rights activist, not the civil rights antithesist 😅

          • @[email protected]
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            43 months ago

            Honest question: Are there no limits in the US to what you can legally name your child? Where I’m from a name can be rejected if it can “cause significant harm or inconvenience to the child”. This prevents idiots from naming their child “Traitor” or “Terrorist”.

            • @[email protected]
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              23 months ago

              There are limits in many places, sometimes in response to that time the artist Prince changed his name to a symbol, in some cases all special characters are banned too, so good luck to anyone with a non-English name. But outside of that? In most states you could probably name your kid Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, much worse names have happened.

              I think there’s been a couple of times where states have tried to stop individuals who have tried to name their kid Adolph Hitler or just some racist slogan, but I don’t remember how those went, it was a genuine legal question if those names could be blocked.

              Name changes, however, are a different thing - often requiring a judge to approve them, they can be rejected simply due to the misfortune of being a trans person in Texas, for example. Unless it’s a name change due to marriage, those are significantly easier for some reason.

        • @[email protected]
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          43 months ago

          i don’t think i’ve ever seen or heard tell of in legends or song, a wikipedia entry that has a simple english page, but no regular english page.

    • @Voran
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      33 months ago

      I think names would actually be more meaningful if people picked their own.