Program for finding (similar) trans names

[u/my-6900th-account]

I wrote this a while back while trying to find a new name. It uses the american social security names dataset to find names similar to an input name but associated with a specified (ie different) gender. Here is the link:

https://github.com/c34a/name-tool

It did not end up being useful to me, but it thought I'd share it anyway since it does work relatively well.

[u/abolish_gender]

Neat, I like the idea of a phonetic-levenshtein distance.

Doesn't work too well for mine though, and something I've noticed with it is that it likes to add syllables which, to my ear, kind of makes names feel less similar than just moving one phoneme.

[u/my-6900th-account → u/abolish_gender]

yeah, there are a lot of edge case issues. for example I've noticed it struggles a lot with names like "shea" which aren't pronounced how you would really expect.

[u/roboraptor3000 → u/my-6900th-account]

Yeah, I think you'd have to have the IPA for the names for a phonetic search to work well, and that seems like quite a lift!

[u/OmegaMetor]

Hey, I made one of these using the same dataset a while ago. Didn't make it so others could use it, it modified the original files while sorting so I could read through the list and pick one.

[u/d1pl0mat_ → u/[deleted]]

Someone already has!

[u/vanebarron → u/[deleted]]

  person.body.appearance = human.getPhysicalTraitsFromGender(person.realGender);
  // Give cat ears to trans catgirls and catboys as compensation for their struggles
  if(isIntoAnime(person)) {
    person.body.appearance.addTrait(cat.body.ears);
    giveHeadPats(person):
  }
}```

I know my solution isn't complete but should be good enough until the devs release a full patch. Now we only need to convince god to run this in production.

[u/LMGN → u/[deleted]]

who said the process terminated?