Let's call things by their name
"THE" transgender Anna is gone or has gone to the grocery store?
Wikipedia illustrates well the difference "academic" and "journalistic" between a woman and have a name to be biologically a woman (in which there is conjugation of the verb in the feminine) or have a name and being a transgender woman (so that changes the name, but must remain anchored to the conjugation of the verb in the masculine).
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A recent article in the New York Times addresses the issue of the strong rileanza name for transgender people, stating clearly that name (and, I would add, the conjugation of verbs and adjectives) is a message. And it's a strong message.
You might mistakenly think that the name change is a minor issue for people who face the path of change in general, lower compared to psychotherapy, to treatment with hormones, to painful hair removal procedures and effort to find available and include medical . Not to mention the risks and suffering from the surgery.
Instead, those who have faced and overcome this difficult and long process argue that the name is an important message to the world that it is required to deal with the Civil Court proceedings to get it. Lower Manhattan has become, thanks to the foresight of its Civil Court, the capital of the proceedings "Joe becomes Jane," with a network of 200 lawyers who work for this and at least 400 customers who have changed their name.
In the last two years of volunteer lawyers some of the most famous studies of the city of New York worked with the "Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund," whose executive director, Silverman MD, defines the name change "a great coming-out".
Back in the old continent, as early as 2006 the Spanish government passed a law that qulae a transsexual person can change their name and sex anagrafe even before having had the surgery to change the reallocation. To approve the bill on sexual it was the Council of Ministers. The Deputy Prime Minister Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega (a name, a program!) Explained the reasons for this decision: "It will help to make it worth the lives of thousands of people who are in this situation."
In Italy for the moment the name change can only take action after the re-allocation and resorting to a court.
In this connection I would like to tell you what they said two people at the end of the transition path.
Ms. Schnur, who saw his old photos a few months after changing his name said: "I always knew not what others thought I was."
Ms. Whitney, however, told the New York Times that before re documents with his new identity whenever he was asked to show his driver's license, she thought that showing a picture and the name of someone who no longer existed it was crazy stuff.
I get irritated when someone misses a lot my name (even calling me names appropriate to my gender identity) and I wondered what it would be having to present me with a name that does not feel my need to continue to use an identity that I reflects the point of deciding to change it completely and legally.
We ask myself the same question. Do you think the name is really that important or you think that basically once you find your identity is not important to communicate to the world around us?
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This post has 3 comments
March 9th, 2010
Nomen omen, in the name of fate, the ancients said.
The importance of the name is obvious: as a book must have the cover right, identically every person must have his "right" name.
In the question there is a transsexual tuttvia step further: that of gender. That is not just a matter of name.
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Carla
Gender identity has
March 9th, 2010
Sleep agree with Narcissus. I share his words. I think it's very important to be recognized even on the documents. because so also facilitates the search for work, school. Fundamentally I think it's one of the things.
March 2nd, 2010
The name is a very important thing, says the siamo.Il name is like looking in the mirror and say to yourself: I am Narcissus, I am that I see here, and that others see. A document of identity is not just a card to be shown on the street who must identify, but it is the most intimate piece of paper that we have, and if that is not recognized by the owner, then you will inevitably suffer. It becomes an uncomfortable piece of paper, it hurts every time it comes out from his wallet.
Finding your identity is important, but given the well-being is not just on this, but also from a social recognition and feedback. It needs to be recognized and the name of the kind where you feel and act. I'm definitely better to be called by My name, I recognize myself and I feel represent me, who is neither a different name, or even worse a name belonging to the genre that I do not feel mine.
I believe that even in Italy should be given the opportunity for people to be able to change that name, that business card, even before you receive any interventions.