#(and my nanna was like ‘so she’s gay now’ and i went ‘welllll not necessarily… some people like both men and women….’ ready for the worst)
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me: *chooses the name gabriel in part specifically because it’s a Good Italian Name™ and i didn’t wanna lose that aspect of my birthname*
my nanna: i’m gonna call you “gabe”, it’s more canadian
#1) yes ik gabriel is the english spelling but i decided ‘gabriele’ was too wop-ish for a second gen canadian xD#2) shes my nanna and not my nonna bc she’s maltese. im half italian tho#like 🙃 bro#here i expected her and all the other immigrant members of my family to pronounce it ‘gabriele’#but lol anyway#friendly reminder that age isn’t actually an excuse for transphobia!#if my catholic 86 year old grandmother can make an effort to respect my identity y’all have NO excuses#(and ok like. she’s not perfect. she doesn’t always use the correct name or pronouns or whatever)#(but she’s trying?? and she respects that i’m a guy. she asked me when i first came out if i was sure about all this and that was that)#(she even explained to other family members that i’m trans so like. <3)#also when we told her she went ‘oh like cher’s son’ and ‘well i don’t see him as a girl at all’ so like#transmascs represent???#so many people have literally never heard of trans men#mean-fucking-while#this is the same 86 year old who#when i tried to give my talking-to-old-heteros introductory speech to the fact that some people like men AND women#(we were talking about a celebrity who’d left her husband and married a woman)#(and my nanna was like ‘so she’s gay now’ and i went ‘welllll not necessarily… some people like both men and women….’ ready for the worst)#(because in my experience some older folks genuinely — not even out of bigotry — can’t wrap their heads around the concept)#went ‘yeah yeah i know. bisexual or whatever it’s called’#had to pick my jaw up off the floor ngl#she also had a say in me picking my new middle name lmao#cuz i used to have her name (antoinette) as my middle name#and i didn’t want to get rid of that (and risk losing favourite grandchild status)#so i was debating whether or not i should change it to antoine or antonio (bc italian)#so i asked for her opinion! seems simple right? WRONG.#APPARENTLY her legal name is actually antonia! which. how did i go 20 years without ever being made aware of this#after one of her relatives (an uncle? i think?) who was named anton#so she said i oughta change it to anton so i’d have her uncle’s name xD#jx.txt
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