How important to you is it to have a femme surname? I have always felt that there was something missing when I am dressed to the 9s. You are Hannah McKnight and I can only assume that this so far removed from your real name. I went back through our family history and found a really lovely lady, again her name is far removed from my male name I feel safe to use it. Since then I feel so much more of a real woman when dressed????
My femme name, like my presentation, came more or less organically. It also came out of necessity. When I started to interact on social media, particularly on forums like crossdressers.com, I needed to register under a name and also have an email address tied to my account.
For obvious reasons I didn’t want to have ANYTHING related to my girl life associated with my boy life, not even an email address. So, I created a separate email address for my pink side of my world which I used for social media stuff. In what I felt was a very clever moment of inspiration, I choose the name Hannah Gotta.
My femme last name wasn’t ever really ‘Gotta’. I liked the name Hannah but I needed to have SOMETHING to put in the “last name” field when I created an email account. I chose “Hannah Gotta” as it (sort of) rhymed with “onnagata” the Japanese word for male actors who play women’s roles in Japanese Kabuki theatre. Eventually I felt I needed a proper last name and I decided on McKnight.
Having a femme first and last name does make me feel… hm, a little more real, if you know what I mean. I like getting emails addressing me as Ms. McKnight. I am bi-gender so I have two very distinct worlds in terms of clothes, friends, and everything else. It just makes sense for this duality to extend to a name.
Love, Hannah
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When I started crossdressing, I soon decided that I needed an en-femme name and settled on Gerry Lynn.
It is laughable and retrospectively ludicrous now but I merely took the word ‘Lingerie’ and … well, you get the idea with that.
Then, probably after some time, I realised the ridicularity of it. I saw it as disrespectful, almost a parody but unintentionally placed of course.
Before I learned that I could change my Twitter account name, the impulsive within wiped away the history in an instance by deleting the account.
I knew/remembered that, had I have been born a girl, my mother would have called me Fiona so it was both a natural and obvious choice. I don’t use it but I did keep the Lynn name at the end just to finish it off.
Fiona is a very big but necessarily secret and covert part of my life.
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