According to Iraola, there is a limitation to the naming of both. Leitzarra is a member of the working group set up to work on the practical guide "Name and Being in Doubt". This work was presented at the cultural center of Itzubaltzeta/Romo last Monday, March 6.

Where does the need for such a practical guide come from?

About four years ago, a concern arose among our militants: when they were mothers, they were putting obstacles in the way of registering names that until then had not been a problem. On the one hand, we decided to make this practical guide to reflect on the names. On the other hand, we wanted to know what the regulation of names of people is, to know what strategies we could share in the face of it, to deceive the law.

Some names discriminate on the basis of sex.

Language helps us to interpret a reality; it is an indispensable tool in the development of identities or identities, as the name is. At the same time, it is adapting to the times. Thus, the names of people have a double function: they serve to designate the individual, but at the same time they serve to position that individual in the public or in certain specific social networks.

What are the strategies you mentioned earlier?

The names give us sexual gender information. I am called The Session; this makes it clear whether I am a woman or a man. In this sense, the female-male binomial is reinforced by the names. In this way, we have received different options or strategies to overcome the nomenclature by sex and to be able to give the newborn a name that he likes in the practical guide "Name and being in doubt". The Academy recommends that the names ending with vowels and consonants i, o, u should initially be for men, with exceptions; and those ending with a and e should be for women. Faced with this situation, one possibility is to justify that what we want to put is fictional or the name of a character. For example, the word 'Mare' means sea in Norwegian; some parents argued that it is a character from local tales to put on their child. In this connection, 'Mar' has always been used to refer to women, although it ends with vowels o. Well, to put it on a boy, his father and mother proved that it's the name of a town in Navarre: I'm waiting for you. Using toponymy is also one of the options.

What is another option?

The third option is to demonstrate through the National Institute of Statistics that names such as 'Snow', 'Aratz', 'Joar' or 'Amaiur' have been used for both girls and boys. On the other hand, the names are often left in the hands of the registry official; many go to the neighboring village because the local worker is more open. In the meantime, many bet on names without gender marks.

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