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I actually had the exact opposite problem. I'm a transguy who was born with the name Jasmine. Clearly I hated it's femininity, so I told everyone to just call me Jay. It worked, nearly all of my classmates and teachers called me Jay. Except for a handful of students and two teachers. I wrote Jay on everything. Papers, assignments, permission slips, and yet they'd still read out Jasmine. It was ridiculous, but this was the same teacher who wrote Merry Christmas at the top of my essay about not celebrating Christmas so.

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One kid found some hilarious joke in calling me the dreaded name. He'd always see me in the hallways or in band and smile and wave, going 'Hey Jasmine, how's it going JASMINE' and no matter the amount of times I told him not to, he did it anyways and laughed. His reasoning was that 'Jay isn't your real name, Jasmine is'

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So I started calling him Samuel instead of Sam. He didn't like it and told me to stop, when I laughed and said 'Silly you, Sam isn't your real name, Samuel is!' He argued that it 'isn't the same because Sam is a common nickname for Samuel'

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He didn't talk to me anymore and I graduated last year and I got the last laugh.

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~theo, collector of names, maker of magic, lover of cats~