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Here's a link on a name site to a discussion of crossgender name equivalents. :) It's fun.

- Erin

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kristina l s's picture

Interesting comments on choices and possibles. If I ever have trouble with a name I go here :

http://www.babynames.com.au/

You can search alphabetically, popularly, ethnic origin, get alternates and similars and other options. I always need a name to hang the character on or I have trouble knowing who they are. I guess with Google/Wiki and a word/phrase translation site that's the one I use most in writing. Dictionary or Thesaurus I use real books, kinky huh.

Kristina

ronnie and ricky play girl

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I didn't have a serious transgender epiphany until I was 12 or 13. As a little kid, while I did some
"gender inappropriate" things that got me some comments, I really didn't think much about my gender.
But one day during recess in first grade, I was off on the far side of the playground with some other
outcast boy when I got an idea: "I know, let's play like we're girls!"

My friend Ricky was all for the idea, and---abracadabra---we were now girls. While I remember it being a lot of fun I'm not sure what all we did to be girls. But do recall that at one point I decided we needed names. Being Ronnie, I decided I was Veronica (The name stuck, when I finally did have my moment of clarity
I knew with certainty that Veronica was my name...) I asked Ricky who she was now.
She put her head up proudly and trilled, "I'm Ve-Ricky-Ca!"

I'm not sure what became of that kid. Wasn't in the neighborhood long. But Verikika, if you see this, PM me...
~~~hugs, Veronica
.

[You'll probably see this anecdote redone as an autobiographical drabble...]

The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe,
for the axe had convinced them that because his handle
was made of wood he was one of them.

Obviously not an Archie reader

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Hilarious story, Laika. :) It has that cartoony ring of truth. Only real people can be that silly.

Hugs,
- Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.