Raven van Dorst grateful for positive reactions to name change | Stars

entertainment">“Thank you all for the nice responses today. Now time for beer ”, Raven writes on Instagram. He also clarifies the pronunciation of the name, which must be pronounced in Dutch. “With a long a as in tomaaaaaaaten.”

entertainment">Raven announced his name change on Instagram on Tuesday. In a post he wrote that he would like to live without ‘compulsion to pigeonholes’ and asked his followers not to address him in the female form anymore. “And that starts with a new name. A name that gives me the freedom to float between left, right, above and below. It matches the ‘X’ I want to get in my passport. A name that moves with me and matches the mirror. A name that I choose myself. Raven. ”

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