I've never encountered or noticed this problem that you mention.
I can't even see an issue with choosing a name that suits their gender, whatever that may be..
Is this really such a big deal irl?
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Its okay to have a different name as long as your conservative.
Just ask Rafael Edward Cruz, famous Texas Magician who disappears everytime things go bad for his constituents.
The only people that have a problem with people changing gender is religious people that think that a fictional god assigned them a gender at birth, because their god knows and controls everything, so can never, ever, ever, ever be wrong about anything. Ever. Like a person's gender. So they hate everyone that questions their fictional hate book. Because it takes them a lot of work to live in that weird, fictional religious reality they want to so badly.
Be whatever gender you want to be. I'll call you whatever you want, but at least stick to it for a bit.
I was only ok with the fake name of Guynan.
Whoopi suck. Guyana, helped picard saved humanity.
Guyuna is also the name of a country and region with slight spelling differences.
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The main difference is that nobody considers referring to Whoopi Goldberg as Caryn Elaine Johnson a hate crime.
I don't think anyone considers calling someone by another name a crime, it's just considered rude and non professional/business like. If I went into work and called someone I didn't like by another random name all the time until the point it was making them feel uncomfortable, HR would come ask me to stop creating a less than ideal work environment and making my coworkers uncomfortable. If I refused to do so, I would expect the HR department to end my employment for that company. None of it is a hate crime, but people have a right to exist and be not be treated in a way you wouldn't treat others.
And it's not something new or anything like that. There are lots of cultures through history in which people choose their own names or alternate names throughout their life for a variety of reasons.
Popes change their names all the time.
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She has stated that her stage forename ("Whoopi") was taken from a whoopee cushion: "When you're performing on stage, you never really have time to go into the bathroom and close the door. So if you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.' And that's where the name came from."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg
TIL it was a fart joke.