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rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Most stories are very specific that it must be the true name. I’m also thinking of old real world stories like Rumpelstilzchen - surely the being was somehow being referred to by humans, but you still had to know its true name to “win”.

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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I take it by “true name”, that means their given name?

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- rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Whatever they consider that to be, probably. There’s no way that the true name of a trans person would be their deadname, and what about women who take on the family name of their husband?
  
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- Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  In most stories, it’s the name their birth mother gave them, so no, not necessarily their given name.
  
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