Asking for advice here...I'm moving to my own apt. in a week, expect to complete social transition on the job and everywhere else by mid-January....so time to file for a name change. I've been elizabethamy on the internet for a long time but when I emerge in real life I will be Michelle (middle name Elizabeth). The question is: do I change my last name? I don't know if this is a good idea for my kids (who won't be plagued in our smallish town by being instantly known by name as the son of that trans woman), but I think it is for me...
...I'm just wondering what other people have done, and whether changing the last name as well as the first one is just right or too much. (The one I have tentatively picked out honors my favorite female relative, who passed on a few years ago.)
If you did take on a new last name, how did it feel to make that change? thanks.
e.a.