Does that name have a feminine/gender neutral association in your language/culture? Feels like a Greek masculine name to me. As in: Alexis Tsipras, the (male) Greek prime minister.
Alexis/Alexander is a common trans name choice here (bay area, California, Statesia), since (my presumption) you can go by Alex and slip into stealth mode as necessary. I’m sure that’s just one of the considerations that goes into choosing a name, I have not really done it and not for those reasons. A whopping twenty(ish) percent of the trans folk I know chose Alex variations, one because their name was already Alex and one because they like the name Alex. We haven’t gotten more into it than that.
Last trans girl I knew was called “Alexis” - the surname was even more posh Victorian! 😁
Does that name have a feminine/gender neutral association in your language/culture? Feels like a Greek masculine name to me. As in: Alexis Tsipras, the (male) Greek prime minister.
In most English speaking societies, it’s an almost exclusively female form of the name.
General femme association and strong upper-class association!
Alexis/Alexander is a common trans name choice here (bay area, California, Statesia), since (my presumption) you can go by Alex and slip into stealth mode as necessary. I’m sure that’s just one of the considerations that goes into choosing a name, I have not really done it and not for those reasons. A whopping twenty(ish) percent of the trans folk I know chose Alex variations, one because their name was already Alex and one because they like the name Alex. We haven’t gotten more into it than that.