Cis people do know that they can change their names too right
Like from what I’ve seen it seems like they don’t know that.
My first college roommate’s name was Sarah but decided our freshman year that Sarah was too common of a name and decided that she was going to go by Phyllis instead. It’s not her middle name or anything, it’s just a name she liked the sound of. Our entire friend group called her that for years.
My uncle-in-law is called Keith and apparently a lot of his nieces and nephews didn’t find out until they were adults that his legal name is John. I knew one of the supervisors at work as Rose for so long I was shocked when I saw her legal name on a piece of paperwork. My cousin was named after my grandfather, but with a name so outdated that he’s gone by a different one since birth.
And you’ll find that nobody challenges them on this topic either :) nobody insists “you should go by your real name.” Interesting.
One of my local friends legally changed her name purely to represent her better. She’s cis.
I wish my aunt didn’t know this because she changed her name to Larceny. Like the crime.
Tell your aunt she has my full support. Would love to be her accomplice
