Jadeanne wrote:How did you other girls choose your femme names?
When I first started to get involved in the online CD/TG community, I, for fairly obvious reasons, chose names corresponding to my given name:
Maria or
Marie, corresponding to my first name; and
Teresa or
Terese corresponding to my middle name. When I started attending support group meetings at Ingersoll Gender Center in Seattle and the facilitators recommended that I use a femme name, the names I'd been satisfied with up to that point just didn't really feel right--in chatrooms and forums they felt adequate, but being in the immediate presence of people who might address me gave me a reason to give the matter more careful consideration.
I started checking out websites that gave attention to the matter of naming children--plenty of ideas there. I remember lists of recently popular names, of celebrity names, and of soap character names. Trendy, but kind of unfulfilling. Then I happened to check a list of names for Shakespearean characters: bingo! Plenty of good names, though some were a bit much. I settled on
Celia, the name of a character from
As You Like It, for no other reason than that it was simple and pleasant.
Anyway, that's how I chose the one I tend to use these days.
Yours,
Celia
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