I think that in a rational society everyone should feel free to choose their name, and doing so should be a normal and expected rite of passage.

It makes way more sense to choose the sound people make when they refer to you, than having your parents choose it for you before you’re even a person yet.

  • AlicePraxis [any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    20·
    8 months ago

    does it have to be a bureaucratic nightmare though? I mean in a society where this was the norm there might be a better system in place to address this

    besides people do it all the time when they get married. straight women are still largely expected to change their last names due to bullshit patriarchal reasons but that’s another issue

    • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      8 months ago

      Here the paperwork is pretty reasonable, you can do a change of name at the same time as choosing a new sex descriptor

      It’s one form for the name, then a couple more forms for licences and passports

    • Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      8 months ago

      My mom changed her name after her divorce and she still gets random shit from the government and companies with her old name. Until we can come up with some universal digital archive for all data, it’s probably gonna remain a nightmare.