Is it wrong of me to want them to call me by my legal first name?
University policy allows students to indicate a preferred first name different from their legal first name on their diploma.
"Sometimes I do miss a get-together or a game, but I never regret being here," said Speed (his legal first name, a family surname).
"My legal first name, which I don't go by any more, is Amanda, said Lola. "And people would come up to me all the time asking 'What are you?
So far, about 100 schools now allow students, and sometimes employees, to indicate a moniker other than their legal first name, according to the Consortium of Higher Education L.G.B.T Resource Professionals, and hundreds more have contacted Vermont on how to implement the pronoun choice.
Mr. Straniere, while passionately denying the charges, pointed out that Dr. Wyne, a cardiologist, recently began using the name Jim in his campaign literature, rather than his legal first name, Jamshad, as he is listed on the ballot for the Sept. 9 primary.
For years, New York State prison officials would not allow Mr. Allah -- who is known to inmates and guards by his new legal first name, Intelligent, or Intel -- to openly practice what he describes as his religion, central tenets of which encourage self-analysis, meditation and a black supremacist message.
As onlookers ponder the fate of the four holdouts occupying the refuge, Finicum, whose legal first name was Robert, has increasingly become a martyr and symbol of government mistreatment in the eyes of his supporters, who claim that police ambushed an innocent man for taking a stand against federal overreach.
Anyone may choose to identify themselves within the WCM community with a preferred first and middle name that differs from their legal first and middle names.
The writer Salman Rushdie emerged victorious in a spat with Facebook over his identity, in which the social network company required him to use his legal given first name, Ahmed.
By default, the Office 365 email and calendar system uses your legal first, middle, and last name.
