• Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    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.

      • Tanis Nikana@lemmy.world
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        16 days ago

        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.

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    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.

  • Minty@aussie.zone
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    16 days ago

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