my mom: marco

dad: cernunnos of all names

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    I don’t know what my parents had planned, but my sister thought she was finally going to get a sister. (Not sure if my parents thought that or if she came up with the theory on her own.) As a result, when I was born a boy, she apparently carried me around the neighborhood telling all the neighbors that I was her new sister Katie.

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    My sister wanted to call me Cinderella whatever the gender.

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    They gave my younger sister a traditionally masculine name, so apparently they were already out of ideas on that score.

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      A lot of names can be converted. My favorite uncle gave his oldest daughter a pretty name, but he wanted a son to name after himself. They quit after having two girls, and he named his youngest girl after himself, with the name converted to the feminine variety.

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    They only thought of boy names for me, so nothing on that front, but my dad wanted to name my sister Preston Thor [last name] which is terrible

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    Probably Margaret or a variation thereupon, there’s at least two in every generation. That’s what I named my daughter.

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    Gender isn’t a binary, so there isn’t necessarily an opposite, but an alternative that my parents considered was “Frankie”.