Let's call things by their name
"THE" transgender Anna is gone or has gone to the grocery store?
Wikipedia thus exemplifies the difference "academic" and "journalistic" between having a name for women and be biologically a woman (in which the female has the conjugation of the verb) or have a name and be a transgender woman (yes 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 strong rileanza name for transgendered people, stating clearly that the name (and, I might 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 gender change, minor in comparison to psychotherapy, to treatment with hormones, to the painful procedure of hair removal and effort to find doctors available and include . Not to mention the risks and suffering associated with surgery.
Instead, those who have faced and overcome this difficult and long process claim that the name is an important message to the world that it is required to address 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 attorneys who work for this and at least 400 customers who have changed their names.
Over the past two years volunteer lawyers of 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 big 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 also anagrafe first undergoing surgery for change of reattribution. To approve the bill Sexual Identity was the Council of Ministers. Deputy Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega (a name, a program!) Has 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 be requested only after the intervention of reallocations, and resorting to a court.
In relation to this I would 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 the first remake of the 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 shit was crazy.
I was very irritated when someone mistakes my name (even calling me names appropriate to my gender identity) and I wondered what it would be me having to submit a name that I feel, having to continue to use an identity that I reflects the point of deciding to change it completely and legally.
I ask myself the same question. Do you think the name is really that important or 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 should have the right cover, identically every person should have his "right" name.
In the question there is a transsexual tuttvia step further: that of gender. That's 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 also on the documents. because so also facilitates the search for work, school. Fundamentally I think one of things.
March 2nd, 2010
The name is a very important thing, says who 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 photo ID 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 awkward piece of paper, it hurts every time it comes out from his wallet.
Finding your identity is important, but welfare is not given only by this, but also from a social recognition and feedback. It needs to be recognized the name and the kind where you feel and act. I'm definitely better to be called by My name, that 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 feel.
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.