• WittyProfileName2 [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    I’m still going by my birth name, which is both really common and heavily masculine coded.

    As a result (I think) people keep trying to twist it into the feminine equivalent. The worst offender is the NHS, every letter I receive from them mangles the name in new and exciting ways.

    I’m honestly thinking of picking a new name in the hopes folks’ll spell it right for a change.

    • pooberbee (any)@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      It’s kind of cute (and hopefully affirming) that they try. Then again, there go the dumbasses of the world working overtime to erase anything that doesn’t fit some arbitrary binary categorization.