• Malgas@beehaw.orgEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      Since when we transliterating ジ as ‘zi’? (Or vice versa.)

      I mean, Google Translate agrees with you, but I would think it should be バズィンガ.

  • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    In the UK you can. We don’t have a concept of legal names. We do have far too many TERFs and other nutters though, so…

    • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Tell that to the banks and NHS who won’t accept my change of name until I change it on my passport

      • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        Deed poll was sufficient for both of those for a name change for me, as well as for the registry office two months ago. I cannot speak for changing gender though, merely name.

        Lots of places are very weird about it though because their staff think we have “legal names”. I switched banks over the weird bullshit mine was pulling. The number of looks my piece of A4 with a couple of signatures on it has received from staff that then have to go check with someone that it’s actually how it works, my gods. No, I know it doesn’t look fancy, it doesn’t have to, go ask your supervisor if you don’t believe me.

        • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.orgEnglish
          5·
          2 months ago

          Oh for sure like, strictly speaking it isn’t necessary, as long as the people you have to deal with know that it isn’t necessary

          • Flamekebab@piefed.socialEnglish
            4·
            2 months ago

            I was shocked that there were people confidently telling me my documents were wrong when I knew for a fact that they hadn’t a clue what the law was. If it’s part of your job to deal with name changes then I expect them to be trained on the subject.

            The bank had its own internal definitions of what a deed poll needed to be - a definition they didn’t publish anywhere and then act like I was the daft one for not knowing the specifics of their fanfic legal definitions.