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Nobody outside of America has a name, they're all assigned serial numbers on their 14th birthday and are only referred to as "burden" up until that point.
funnily enough it's really easy to change your legal name in the UK, one form and ~£40
changing your gender marker on the other hand requires years and years, plus appearing before a council of cis people who tell you if you're trans enough lmao
changing your gender marker on the other hand requires years and years, plus appearing before a council of cis people who tell you if you’re trans enough lmao
In places like Finland you can also add being mandatorily sterilised into the list
I guess I'm thankful I got a name I like and it reminds me of mom because there's a story behind it. So thanks mom for naming me KillerZombieX420
In many non-western societies, it's not uncommon to have many names from many sources
It's not uncommon in western societies either. You can pick any name you like and introduce yourself as that, you can choose a nickname based on your given name or be given a nickname based on your given name, you can "earn" nicknames from various accomplishments or traits. I'm not even sure I'm confident most people go exclusively by their given name and nothing else.
I think given and chosen names are relevant and equally valid and shouldn't be a whole ordeal to go by whichever, but I don't see anything wrong with a given either
a lot of cultures have a tradition of a birth name and another name given in a rite of passage to adulthood. it's part of living in a community or a tribe. honestly the concept of an entirely self-created, self-chosen identity is the more recent norm, historically.
it’s part of living in a community or a tribe.
Or a Catholic parish, even.
Wouldn't you need to get fingerprinted to get a passport or ID card anyway which you need to interact with society? That's how it is in Europe, at least.
Clearly you don't live in a political union that has Germans in it
Just making a joke about Germans having a big bratwurst-sized hardon for authority and bureaucracy
"Biometric" seems to be a big word I see coupled with passports these days, I assume soon enough you're going to get swabbed if you want a passport.
Where I live I can't even pick up packages from the post office without a valid, non-expired ID. One time I went to get something I'd ordered without realising my ID had expired a week before, and the clerk just told me they couldn't legally hand me the package. I had to ask a random person to go to the counter for me, lol.
(A driver's license would also work, I guess and I don't think you get printed for one of those. But they're not as widely accepted as passports and EU ID cards)
What are parents going to do, call their child "the child" until a name is self-selected? And all the while, their child is getting used to being referred to and called "the child", and has to completely get used to a name instead of being accustomed to it from the time they first learn to talk?
In many societies you have a given name and a chosen name. In most, if the kid has a nickname they like, they end up going by that nickname.
