Venkatesh Rao on Twitter: "Question for trans people: do new names tend to derive from dead names? Does Joe tend to turn into Josephine, or make a clean, non sequitur break?"

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1. Neil Thawani‏ @lioninawhat Jan 2
  
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  Not a trans person, but often yes. Real-life examples for me include Jeffrey->Jessie, Andy->Amy, Ian->Liani, Emmitt->Emilia. But don't go around dead-naming trans folks because it's a source of trauma for most.
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1. Nathaniel Eliot‏ @temujin9 Jan 2
  
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  Not trans, but trans adjacent. IME roughly half and half: more deadname-like than chance alone, but not enough to count as a group-wide trend.
  
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1. Maeve Elizabeth‏ @ragnarokette Jan 2
  
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  depends on the person, anecdotally its like 60/40 in favor of variations on the original theme. The ones that most commonly get ditched are names that were already unisex in my experience. I guess just for a more clean break in identity but who really knows?
  
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1. ✞ The Public Universal Fiend ✞‏ @4goth1 Jan 2
  
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  I know some who did, a sizeable minority tend to, I think.
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1. a tall snail ‏ @tallsnail Jan 2
  
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  small sample size, but the three trans friends I have all chose somewhat derived names (2 millennial, 1 gen x)
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1. em‏ @peaktransit Jan 2
  
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  i tried to think of a name that started with the same letter as my old one, just for the ease of my initials not changing, but couldn't think of any i liked so it's unrelated i know some ppl who went with vaguely similar names but direct equivalents are uncommon i'd say
  
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