STORYTIME || TRANSGENDER NAME CHANGE
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2016
- Katherine Elizabeth to Skylar Tucker Kergil - the story of my name change! let me know if you enjoy storytimes!
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Dude you were the first trans youtuber I ever watched and today I came out to my friends and family. I know you probably won't see this, but thanks for being on here.
That's awesome! Congrats, Man!
Your openness is so refreshing. The fact that you can talk so freely about this now I think just shows that you're in a great place. I've loved following you on this journey. Thanks for having us along with you ❤️
"i love things like murder" lmao
lol it's true.. like v true..... O_o o_O hehe
Hey you. You are so sweet. It's hard for people who aren't transgender to understand transgenders. But you're just talking to the camera like you would talk to a friend, and that's really really cool. And you're so nice!! I don't see any hate or bitterness in you. Which is hard because I'm sure you've gone through a lot of hurt and pain, it's easy to lash out in anger. But you seem like you're conquering it, you're very strong Skylar. It's refreshing, cool to hear your story. You're going to influence a lot of people. (: keep it up!! subscribing!
I was totally about to fill out the form in blue ink to finally get that started this week so thank you for the timely advice
Oh my god, this is basically a summary of your transition now that I hear the story. XD
i really hope that i could meet you someday.. i dont know if ive commented this before, but ive been watching you for most of my teenage years and you are such a beautiful person on the inside and out. youre softspoken and calming to listen to and i always seem to resort back to your videos to know that there is hope for me and that change will come my way so that i can be the best me that i could ever be. thank you, skylar
This was really interesting to watch as someone who does not identify as transgender. I always enjoy hearing peoples' stories and experiences. What a chaotic process. But look at how far you've come! Happy for you and everyone who fights the good fight to live in congruence of who they are.
HOLY SHIT. We were born on the same day!!!
Also thanks for sharing this and sharing old pictures of youuuu.
I'm so glad I found you, Skylar, I've really enjoyed learning about your journey and it is so wonderful and you as a person are just amazing!
I'd love to hear more stories from you! This was pretty cool to hear just what you went through in legally changing your name and it'd be really cool to hear other things from your perspective
solid :D thanks andy!
OHMYGOD!! I saw you a bit ago and when I saw this, I couldnt believe you've changed so much !!!
Your smile is so contagious! And I loved the storytime! More, please :D
Sky, I felt the same way when my name was legally changed. I started the process in September 2015, but didn't get my court date until March of this year. I still have some very important documents in my birth name like my insurance cards *cringe* That is why I avoid going to the hospital at any cost. Anyways, I love you man and I miss you. Glad to see you're doing good.
Thank you so much for sharing this story and please keep doing story time!
Loved storytime and your newly found comfort addressing the subject. Thx so much for sharing!
This is such a great story! Thank you so much for sharing! I can't wait until I reach the part of my transition, and then tell you all about it. :)
You're wonderful. Thank you for sharing your story. Your attitude is incredible. This made my day.
Thanks for sharing! You're a great storyteller. Congrats on the award nomination too!
Thank you for making this video! I'm currently going through the very first steps of legally changing my name. :^)
This made me even more excited for the process! ^^
Thanks again. ❤️
Very nice video. I liked it. I wouldn't mind more video's like this in the future. You also seem to be much more relaxed. Skylar seem to fit like a nice puzzle piece and too it is unique just like you. Keep up the good work. Have a terrific day.
thanks for sharing this story! I like hearing back stories.
What a handsome man
Holy shit. I thought you were going to change your name again.
oh thank goodness i'm not hehe ;)
OMG I was not expecting a response.,,
Yeah ahaha. You really suit the name Skylar :)
skylarkeleven Hi Skyler. I'm not trans gender or anything but I really hate my first name which is Breanna (I wanted to go by my middle name, which is pronounced like Shane but spelled differently just to see if I felt comfortable) but now I'm really wanting to legally change my entire name to Lydia Lorraine. Does it cost extra to change your middle name to?
Please make more videos like this, i really loved it! ^-^
Man, it was not that easy! I'm on this way, but first I need to have my social name recognized, as well just my friends know it. I am running for my real name changing, high school is not easy
Great video! I would love other storytime videos :)
My whole life I've felt uncomfortable with acting as a girl. I didn't like "feminine" clothing or being referred to that way. I never knew why I liked acting as a boy more than a girl. It wasn't even until high school where I was actually exposed to the LGBT+ world (I was in private school until middle school, my friend in middle school is pansexual and they were the first person I met in LGBT), and near the end of my senior year I learned about gender identity, and I thought to myself "am I a girl?" I kept these thoughts to myself until I entered college. After my first year I said to myself "that's it" and cut all my hair off. I then found the term genderfluid and decided to try it out. I told my friends and tried it. A few months ago I started thinking again, I don't think this fits. So by now I'm in my second year of college and I found "Demiboy". So now I use he/they pronouns I'm out to my friends and at school, but not at home (my parents are kinda.. uh bad about this stuff so I can't come out to them). And I've been making a list of names I like and would like to be called. And I just wanted to say I really like your videos, and they honestly give me hope for the future. And one day I hope that I can be seen by everyone as the boy I am.
"It was approximately May 19th" 😂😂
Always had the same issue with my name, no one called me by my birthname and just called me by my last name, so even if I still find it a touchy subject I think it's nowhere as bad as it would have been if I was called my birthname
Is it weird that I want to give you a hug😬
My middle name is Katherine-Elizabeth 😂
Good video as always!
I love this video so much. I just chose my first name, though I still need to make sure I'm 100% set on it. Now, I have to pick a middle name 😂
Whatever you do we love man!
Xoxox
I ❤️ you! You are making the world a better place and I would be proud to be your mom!
Can u tell that how often do we take t and how long will we be on t . Also does it carry risks for cancer if you didn't get surgery.
I've tried to find answers to this elsewhere but couldn't. If you don't mind me asking (and this is open to anyone who knows), do you find your hands/feet change after hormones? In size or anything like that? I'm assuming not but am not sure.
curious question yiu said you were in MA. do yiu know any good trans friendly gyno. I'm still in the process of change but until then I need to find one and was wondering if yiu had one before your change and if there any near Springfield
3:00 OH MY GOD
Cute video Skylar :)
I'm 23 still legally "Erica". Can't wait to see my real name on my ID and such! I always say "Riley just fits me better" because I'm still half in the closet and don't look like a guy at all lol. Anyway enjoyed your storytime and happy for you.
I don't think you know how much your helping people me and others
your amazing
My mum is called Katherine Elizabeth ahahaha. Great video btw :)
Thanks for sharing! I definitely need to get on that name change train. Also, black ink is boring! I wanna be able to use rainbow gel pens! XD
Do you have any advice for someone (Age 24) who is thinking about starting their transition?
yess more storytimes
That moment when the video starts with a grindr commercial
You have to go to court to change your name? That's so crazy!! In Sweden you just fill out a form, mail it, pay a fee and then you're done!
I wish my printer was working so I could print the petition like I tried to the other day. From the sound of it there is more crap to do to change a name in Wisconsin than where you live. WHy make so hard?!
"Yeah I can see that" ahaha so nice
In my country you have no problem to change your name in a month... But the challenge is to change gender. Strange for me that we all humans and live on one planet, but countries have such many differences. Cool story, 'Skylar' is perfect!
man, my process was way easier. I submitted the paperwork on a Thursday and got the response the following Monday. new York ftw for once
Wait. It's September?
When you said serious my Siri came on
Idk if you know the answer to this, but your drivers license story reminded me: can I still travel with a passport that has my old name on it? I might go to Canada (I live in the US, so I'd be driving across the border) in a couple weeks and don't have time to change my passport before then
Call a clerk or other court official that's local
I feel like if they don't ask for any id other than your passport and it's not expired they have no reason to know there's a discrepancy. But that means you should probably not be in the drivers seat bc they could reasonable want to see a license from the driver. But I've never driven across a border only flown so idk what border crossing is like.
technically, you could face issue if you have a drivers license with X name and X gender and a passport with Y name and Y gender. if your drivers license is already changed, bring that plus your name change documents with you. let them know you are in process of getting your new passport with the right name, but that this one is still valid with this info. do a little bit of research :) but basically, when i crossed over to canada in a car, they just looked at all our passports or IDs. we were 5 trans guys, all in different stages of name/gender change. we all got through :)
thanks for the advice, all! bringing my name change documents with me is a good idea, I don't have my drivers license changed yet either but luckily I won't be the one driving :) hopefully just seeing the name change documents and my passport will be fine.
Jay Todd I just prefer to err on the side of caution with American border patrol since they're like either bored or have an eternal stick up their ass
I've been planning to get my name legally changed and I hope to do it before I graduate at the end of this year so the right name will be on my diploma
i find this interesting because im from MA as well but i had a smoother name change experience (im not trans im non-binary/agender not sure yet). Mine lasted when i finally got to it and stuck with it like 2 1/2 months. The other times it took longer to hand back the first papers because im a procrastinator xD.
Oh and i didnt have to go to court because at least where i live in MA (not sure if its the same where you live) but you only go to court if someone objectifies that they dont want you to change your name thus having to go to court. I didnt have that so i didnt have to go and got my name changed earlier (it was legally changed July 6th and ive been out as London since 2014)
You're a total Skylar ;) Perfect name for you.
"I love murder!" ~Skyler
*skylar
you look so nice!! :')
I can't wait until I can official change my name to Jason 👌 it will be the best day if my life
I love you 😭😭😭😭
Personally, I'm like the name that I was given at birth, and observing my father's problems, I can try being a Ken Coleman 2.0. I'm not sure what gender identity I am, but personally feel (to quote Romeo, "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet". My online gaming avatars however have names that are more feminine. With Second Life, I picked up the name Riley (being fan of both a fan of "Girl Meets World" and a Wailin' Jennys song named "Bold Riley". Then, last summer, I took an online personality quiz for "Royal Names", and I got "Kendall". It's a Bostonian name, I'd still be K. Coleman as an illustrator, it's gender neutral, and its nickname is "Kenny", a name that I regularly went by until I was 26. The name "Kenny" was something that I was okay with. Personally I liked it, but I saw in the world around me that my name was often a but of jokes. In TV shows, it's a common name for geeky characters who don't fit in, as soon as South Park premiered, I regularly heard the "You killed Kenny." line in the school hallways. In high school, a teacher called me "Columbine Kenny" for four years because I was a social outcast whose face resembled Dylan Klebold (I began my freshman year 5 months after the shooting). Shortening my name to "Ken" was my therapist's suggestion because because people often called me "Kenny" at work as a way to talk down to me.
Now, I'm "Ken" to many friends, some of my family and friends that I've met in 2010 or later, but otherwise, it's usually "Kenny". I do have a genderqueer friend who's uncomfortable talking to most men (my feminine side makes me one of the exceptions). When the friend asked me what I'd like them to call me after our talk on gender identity, I told her that if they felt more comfortable seeing my feminine side in the forefront, and calling me "Kenny", that's fine as long as they don't do it in any demeaning way.
I want to try a gender neutral name to feel more 'me', but I have no idea what would suit me...I have never liked my birth name. I'm hoping some kind of inspiration/epiphany will happen haha!
The way I picked out my new name was I googled a list of gender neutral names, found the name Skyler and I thought it fitted me well, so I tested it out some online, and I just decided to make that my new name. I know my story of picking a new name was very uneventful.
GlassWolfVI Heyy my name is also Skyler
I was given the same middle name I'm 19 and never learned to spell it always forget if it's an I or A
I want to ask you is what is your favorite Coffee cup ?
Please do more story time 😀 Signy Signy lol 😂😂😂😂😂
hehe alright i will bryn! :D
When is the time legally change name and gender marker ??
I like story time
Lmao Katherine Elizabeth is my middle name which is named after like random relatives I've never met
omg that is too long for a middle name lolol
❤
I went from Amanda Iiris Josefiina to Adrian Elias Mikael and I can not remember where the name came from it just felt like me
Adrian S I'm not trans gender or anything but I really hate my first name which is Breanna (I wanted to go by my middle name, which is pronounced like Shane but spelled differently just to see if I felt comfortable) but now I'm really wanting to legally change my entire name to Lydia Lorraine. Does it cost extra to change your middle name too?
Chyane Roberts I don't know I haven't gotten to legally change my name yet but in school and stuff I have changed it. It's a very painful and long process here if you're trans but I have no idea what it's like for other people.
Adrian S okay. Thank you.
sky! we have the same birth middle name (along with TWO of my first cousins) haha. i don't know what i want to change my middle name to, though. it is a quandary. any suggestions? (that goes to anyone reading this comment lol)
Oh gosh. this reminds me of my name change to husband's last name. first to the social security office, then to dmv, then I tried to get a passport didn't have the right birth certificate. had to call the county I was born in, find out hospital I was born in was demolished. will take a few days, then I get my birth certificate FINALLY. I fill out all the forms for the passport and include a copy of my marriage certificate, birth certificate, my new id, my ssn with my new name, fill out the form with my new name and send it out.
the passport arrives with my new last name misspelled.
FUUUUUU.
I sent them everything with my correct new last name. they could have checked just one form and viola.
so then I had to drive to the San Francisco passport place (which is a 2.5 hour drive). get in line. show the clerk that my last name is wrong and they say to come back at the end of the day to pick up the new one...
so $300, multiple appointments, a day trip out of town, and i finally have everything.
my advice is if you don't need to change your name DON'T. the worst part of it all was I was kinda meh about changing my name and thought it would be easy because fuck women change their last names all the time for centuries, the system should be easy.
I was wrong.
I order your book off amazon
My name is Katherine ;) and my middle name also starts with an E ;)
You voice so cool and fun))))
I laughed because when I applied for greencard I had the SAME wrong ink letter! And Sweden don't have birth certificates so I needed a specific one. I brought it, sent it, it was wrong. I had mom get it, send it to us so we could send it to them. I ask what they need and they need "one for abroad countries with a stamp" so mom yet again ask for it to the Swedish people, gets it mailed to her so she can mail to us so I can mail to them. It was finally the right one.... but another paper was wrong AND THEY COULDN'T TELL ME EARLIER? They were in contact with us so many times and they told us one thing at the time... and yes my middle name letter was also wrong but instead I had to write it out. Sigh. Soon I can apply for citizenship and as soon as I am a full citizen I want to change my name. I want both things done but getting all paperwork correct doesn't feel fun.
my middle name is Elizabeth too :)
cool
hi skyler.
você é ótimo
I kinda expected you to say that your copies were stolen after you left the court xD
the copies weren't valid bc they were in BLUE INK :O jk ;)
Did you have to get your birth certificate changed?? xx
LOL my birth names are two queen names too! im half italian and half german-irish and my mom chooses the most boring name and the most english queen name haha oy vey
Did he save his eggs for later if he do want any ? He is so handsome regardless
Ahhh we have the same birthday lol
Ima sub
Haha, my given name was Elizabeth Leigh
Elizabeth was such a popular name for our generation lol!
So true! My mom told me that she originally wanted to name me Elisabetta (after a character in Bram Stoker's Dracula?) but she didn't want me to have a weird name that might get me made fun of.
aaaaaaaand I picked a fucking weird name XD
Poor Skylar, you were a victim of the system! I'm glad you could change your name though :)
IM FROM MASSACHUSETTS! I rlly wanna meet you dude!! I'm also trans and that'd be sick if i could meet you. :)))) hope u see this. See ya!
This guy is so hot tho
did you get sunburned Sky?
i think i did somehow.. i'm always kinda red :O
i hope you don't take this as an insult but when you had long hair you looked like Sue form The Middle.
does sky not know what the word hooligan means
I straight up thought your birth name was Skylar...
I am a biological man... And this guy is way hotter than me :(
😒
no no, katherine with a K not C :) it's a beautiful name with a C! you rock!!