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[–] lwhjp@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 day ago

They'll figure it out eventually. Worked for me 😁

[–] jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Transition without saying anything and just gradually start telling people to call you by your new name:

[–] msprout@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago

Just gaslight everyone.

"What do you mean? (New Name) is what I've gone by my whole life. You must be crazy or something."

[–] IndieSpren@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bonus points if you have a unisex name and don't even change it.

[–] mxcory@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

See, I do, but I still want to change it.

At first I was like, "I sure got lucky with the only neutral name of the three." But now I have a chosen name. (Hardly used, but darn it I think I really like it.)

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

ew, AI generated image

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Generated locally on my phone by a small, purpose built neural net trained on work of paid and consenting artists at apple, likely using renewable-powered inference compute. (I charge my phone at night, when a large portion of electricity on my local grid is likely nuclear)

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

hmm... im unsure about all the training data bein exlusively by apple employees n... for som reason thad nuclear energy argument, while valid and reasonable, meks me angri cuz it sounds lik ur indirectli sayin "well if my power source wouldnt we this gud i wouldn't have generated it"... evn tho i dun actulli think u meant thad.

::: evil ramble im... iduno, for som reason dis meks me angri.... pls dun take it personlli bt ur commnt made it sound kinda like... ur bein better than others... especialli with thad last section... :::

[–] jia_tan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 22 hours ago

evl rambl accepted nd noted 💕

I am tempted to just gaslight everyone around me once I get the girl meds - "what do you mean? I've had boobs since I was a teenager, stop being crazy"

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why come out when you can gaslight?

I might just have to steal this

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When your parents are accepting enough of gender nonconformity, it might not work.

[–] Lxrduy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I think I have that problem. I've had my hair long for ~8 years, am regularly wearing nail polish, I have a long skirt I like to wear around the house and nobody cares. Should just come out already, but that's scawy

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 3 points 13 hours ago

The longer its been, the harder it gets to come out. Eventually I decided to wear a bra with shirt that made it kinda obvious I was wearing a bra to bait my parents into starting a conversation I could use as an excuse to bring it up finally.

[–] sprite0@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago
[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

It's scary but it can also be freeing. Stay safe though.

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Just doing the rocker thing Mom