It’s amazing how much our names shape our identities. Some names feel like a perfect fit from the start, while others never quite resonate with us.
However, crossdressers and transgender women have the unique opportunity to choose their own feminine names.
Every great MTF name has a story behind it, and I’d love to hear YOURS.
How did you choose your feminine name?
Please tell us your story in the comments below, and if you can, share a photo too. It’s always lovely to put a face to a name!
Love,
Lucille
A girl who knew I dressed as a woman gave me the name. She liked that I wore female clothes and helped me dress up. When I fully dressed for her she said my male name was too macho and called me Angie. It stuck.
My new name is the female version of my Norse name.
i chose chanel as my first name because of the beautiful, alluring scents of Chanel perfumes. I chose my last name, lacy, because lacy things are very feminine and sexy, something i aspire to be like.
When I was young, I thought of myself as a changeling; the faeries had come and replaced my parent’s son with whatever I was. So it was only natural to name myself after them.
My mother gave me the name Robin in 1962, just after my birth and just before they closed my lower regions as current 1962 laws and my father dissallowed me having both reproductive systems accesible. (I am Hermaphrodite). She always told that I would find out why she chose that name. I learned this at age 29, after an incidental menstrual cycle which broke through the induced masculin hormones I was forced to live on . That moment I learned I was both; Men and woman, and it took me a few years to comprehend and accept. I took an Sioux namequest by walking from polar circle to home 3700km, and that remembered that my mother said this earlier, and now I understood why. Opposing the law and resistence she managed to find something befitting me as a person, not an imposed gender. I am still proud of her due this, even if we got estranged due her problems, which eventually led to her demise 12 years ago. So Robin is my name; genderless, befitting both genders and befitting me.
So I have only one name that is important to me, not my family name, only my name; Robin. Thanx mam ;P
As a male, I was quite hairy (I am working on that). My maternal grandfather was named Harold. Something clicked, recently, when I realised that my mother was probably named Harriette after her father. It seems logical. My father used to call my mother Harri, too, so it seemed logical to bring all of this together and revive my mother’s full name.
I chose the name based on a couple of things. I first really liked the name Tess. A character from one of my favorite TV shows, Eureka. The character and name appealed to me very much. When accepting finally after my whole life that I was not just a cross dresser but transgender, I started to go though names. And eventually that one stuck out for me. My male name I was always used to it being used in it’s shortened form. And Tess made me feel more comfortable. Tess or Tessa worked for me. And Lynn, as a middle name was from a early relationship I had when I was engaged at a younger age. Her middle name was Lynn. I always loved her full name, but thought straight out taking both names just didn’t feel right. So I chose her middle name as well. Now I am Tessa Lynn. I haven’t come out to anyone yet, so I haven’t hear anyone call me by that name. Maybe someday. But for me, it is becoming my identity and who I am.
I was born with the name,Troy. I had a great uncle that I loved and his last name was Hayden. I once wanted to change my last name to Hayden….I hated my last name! I never changed my last name so when I transitioned I decided my first name would be Hayden in honor of him.
Oddly enough, Raven has always been my name. It’s the one thing I didn’t feel like I needed to change. I was the only guy with my name I’d ever heard of, and because of some female characters in media with the name Raven, it was very easy for me to imagine people were referring to me as a girl when they said my name. I got very lucky here.