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Especially if you're (by your choice, or otherwise) breaking new ground away from your family's culture and traditions. Someone letting the bridges to their evangelical family burn might as well not go to a standard list of biblical baby names.

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Alternatively, I know a few trans folks who have brought in more elements of their family names--adding a mother's surname as a middle name, hyphenating, using a historical family name of the correct gender as their first name, etc.

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I was expected to be a girl, and was going to be named after my grandmother, "Grace." With full knowledge of how eggy this is, I'm pretty sure that if I transitioned I'd use that name, both to remember a woman who was dear to me and to commit to the bit of the plan working, just taking a while.

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