I have given alot of thought.....

[Nicki B]

I want to say again, that in no way am I saying that anyone else who uses a different name or has an alter-ego has multiple personalities or are pretending, I am saying that is how I felt about me.

It's my experience that some, certainly, choose the name of someone they admire or would wish to model themselves on? A sort of 'who they aspire to be'??

I personally have found the popular use of both the first and the third person to refer to oneself here to be a bit disconcerting. "I like to go and buy clothes for Julie" As if Julie were a completely separate person.

Sometimes, it's just easy, for clarity, to refer to 'him' and 'her'. In reality, gender isn't just either/or anyway, but that's the way society assumes it is?

I guess I'm saying it's not just the trans community that works on that presumption..