Hi everyone, it’s been a while. I’ve been super busy lately, and thinking about this certainly hasn’t made my headspace any less full.

My name is Ivy now. Ivy Rose Turner to be more specific.

Why, you may ask, especially after I changed my name legally to Laker in 2021?
I’ve simply fallen out of love with it. I don’t hate it, unlike my deadname. It’s still important to me. There are just things i like to be called more.

Well, at least for Laker that is. My middle names are a different story. I first named myself in 2018, after a song lyric I was working on, my best friend at the time, and a character from my favourite game.
That left me with the name Laker James Vaughn

Now, I’m sure that there’s a trans woman out there that enjoys being named James, and all the power in the world to you. But I’m not anywhere near that.
It’s one of the things I hold the most dysphoria around now.

So I’m fucking it off completely. Plus now I get to take my grandmother’s middle name. Yay.

If you refer to me in the future, please do so by addressing me as Ivy, even if you’re referencing work I made before I changed my name.

Thanks for reading, I’ll see you on the internet.

1. Plus the person who I named myself after later turned into a right-wing bellend. Damn it.
2. If you manage to work out the character I’m talking on about, you get a cookie. Well done, and great taste.