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Government database defining what our names are is also backwards.
A name is what people call you. You can actually change your name or gender whenever you want. Most people just don't want to.
Like if you go to a new country, you can tell them anything, and that becomes your actual name, because that's what names are. Pisses me off when the word "preferred" gets put there. Like, no, that's not preferred, it is. The government database is just wrong and refuses to update their records because it's run by a bunch of racist, sexist, misogynist ignorant old fucks.
Gender is the same way. I exist for now, and while I do, I have free will. Perks of being alive. Only in your tiny little backwards kingdom do you think you have any control over your database. It doesn't change who I ACTUALLY am. That's just your preferred data for some reason and you've conned a lot of people into thinking you define them, rather than are just a single country on this huge planet's records keeper.
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That may be how it is where you live, but where I live the name is very much checked and double checked when you switch countries and it's next to impossible to change it. Gender is another matter and that is probably one of the exceptions that allow for a name change.
I think you're misunderstanding. It very much is like this, basically everywhere, including were I am. But I'm saying that, it's that way because civilization has fucked up its priorities and government is grossly overstepping reality. Because in reality the government doesn't control what your name actually is, it just controls what it legally is in that country. Which, yeah, unfortunately has a pretty strong hold on you. But, still isn't how actual names work.
Think of it this way: if nuclear war happened and all government databases and registries were wiped away, your name would still be whatever you say it is. If you get abducted by aliens, and they decide to call you something in alien, that becomes your new name. If you get sucked through a time machine wormhole into the past or future, your literal name is whatever you set it to be. Because that's how names work: names are just what people call you - not what a government database has written down for your id number.
If your name is written down in the government database, and that aligns with your actual name, then yeah, it is your name - but not because it's from the government. The government cannot set your name. Only you, and maybe the people around you can.
A government doesn't have natural authority to set your name, just like they have no natural authority to set your hair color, height, butt position, dick length, who you're married to, who you love, who your family is, what genitals you have, or where you physically are.
So unless they MAKE YOU A PRISONER, you control your life.
And if they've made you a prisoner... that is indeed a different story, for a similar time. I'm sure you understand the implications of that, though.
While it makes sense immediately to me, it was still surprising that one can have a different legal name in different countries.