How I Gave Myself a Name

(This was originally posted on cohost, hence the lowercase.)

Someone asked: "Trans people: I want to hear how you chose your name"

i just thought of a bunch of names i liked, threw out all the ones that i didn't think sounded good for a very tall woman (i'm 6'5" / 195cm), and ended up with anna, cassandra, nina and a few others.

part of me knew it would be convenient if i kept a name that began with C because i'd already released a game as C.T. Matthews, but i tried not to let that influence things too much because my name is obviously far more important to me than my fucking "brand". i ended up going with cassandra/cass anyway because i like how it sounds, i relate to the greek myth because i used to frequently get ignored and talked over in meetings and so on, and frankly i like having such a common trans woman name.