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| Tommy Dorfman |
Another “celebrity” came out as trans: actress Tommy Dorfman, who came out as a transgender woman.
“I am a trans woman. My pronouns are she/her. My name is Tommy.”
What struck me was that she retained her male first name, Tommy, rather than adopting a female name.
When I started crossdressing, I did not adopt a female name. I did not even consider it. It never came up (and why would it since my crossdressing was closeted).
Only when I joined Genderline, the crossdresser group on CompuServe, did I adopt a femme name. And I only did so because the male-to-female crossdressers on Genderline had adopted female names. In retrospect, it made sense for my personal security back then (circa 1977) because I was still closeted and out to nobody.
Fast forward four decades and I am out to almost everybody. And a lot of those people are civilians who knew be by my male name before they knew me as trans. Most of them don’t even know my femme name and still call me by my male name.
In this day and age, parents are naming their newborn girls with names that were previously considered male names, for example, Jesse, Taylor, Austin, Jordan, etc. According to Babycenter, even “Stanley” is a girl name, as well as a boy name – not a popular girl name, but a girl name nonetheless. So I feel motivated to jettison “Stana” and start going by “Stanley” full-time and complete the circle.
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| Wearing Venus |
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| Rianna modeling in a fashion show in the Lindale Mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa |
