@cupoftea Having come out "officially" this morning with a big Fb post, I've been thinking about names for a while.

Not ready to actually start using my new name / pronouns yet. I want to see how HRT goes.

My new first name is private; my family knows, but it's something meaningful to me, that connects me to both my maternal & paternal grandmothers. My first middle name is the feminine variant of my current middle name, which is my father's name. My second middle name is the name my late mother told me when I was young that she would have given me had I been AFAB.

@cupoftea I came across mine almost by accident, honestly. My sister was talking about Faith something or other church and I went "Oh, Faith. That's a girl's name. I kinda like it." It also has a lot of meaning for me, personally, with transition as I feel like the whole process has been a giant leap of faith.

Prior to that, I tried REALLY hard to find a girl's name I liked that started with J. Played with Jessica for a while but my wife hated it. (Too much childhood trauma associated with girls named Jessica.) I played around with a few other ideas and scoured baby name sites for months and couldn't come up with a J name I liked. Then I came across Faith and it stuck.