{"id":85313,"date":"2022-10-03T04:50:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T04:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/it-is-her-body-its-her-name\/"},"modified":"2022-10-03T04:50:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T04:50:57","slug":"it-is-her-body-its-her-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/it-is-her-body-its-her-name\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It is her body, it&#8217;s her name&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul class=\"caas-list caas-list-bullet\">\n<li>\n<p>Backstreet Boys singer AJ McLean discussed his daughter&#8217;s decision to change her name from Ava to Elliott.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>McLean told People that it was not &#8220;a transgender thing&#8221; but a &#8220;personal choice&#8221; by his daughter.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>McLean said that Elliott felt that her old name, Ava, was &#8220;not that unique and not that original.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Backstreet Boys singer AJ McLean opened up about his 9-year-old daughter&#8217;s decision to change her name from Ava to Elliott.<\/p>\n<p>McLean told People that he will &#8220;support&#8221; his daughter&#8217;s name change regardless of the reason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When my daughter asked to change her name to Elliott, initially, I didn&#8217;t know if it was a transgender thing, which it is not, but it is a personal choice,&#8221; McLean said.  &#8220;It is her body, it&#8217;s her name, it&#8217;s everything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elliott&#8217;s name change was first announced by her mom in a back-to-school post on Instagram last month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s still Ava. She&#8217;ll always be Ava to me,&#8221; McLean told People.  &#8220;But at the same time, whatever reasoning it is, she that&#8217;s hers, and I&#8217;m going to support it a million percent, my wife will (too).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McLean added that Elliott first picked her new name over a year ago, according to People.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled his daughter saying: &#8220;Dad, I just feel like my name is not that unique and not that original, and there&#8217;s a lot of Avas at dance and a lot of Avas at school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On her Instagram Story, McLean&#8217;s wife Rochelle addressed the questions about Elliott&#8217;s name change, People previously reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not that it&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s business but Elliott&#8217;s name change is not a gender thing,&#8221; Rochelle wrote, noting that her daughter wanted to change her name for a long time and the name Elliott &#8220;stuck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Insider<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backstreet Boys singer AJ McLean discussed his daughter&#8217;s decision to change her name from Ava to Elliott. McLean told People that it was not &#8220;a transgender thing&#8221; but a &#8220;personal choice&#8221; by his daughter. McLean said that Elliott felt that her old name, Ava, was &#8220;not that unique and not that original.&#8221; The Backstreet Boys &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/it-is-her-body-its-her-name\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;It is her body, it&#8217;s her name&#8217;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":85402,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/aj-mclean-says-it-was-his-daughters-choice-to-change-her-name-to-elliott\/","url_meta":{"origin":85313,"position":0},"title":"AJ McLean Says It Was His Daughter&#8217;s Choice to Change Her Name to Elliott","date":"October 3, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Backstreet Boys singer AJ McLean discussed his daughter's decision to change her name from Ava to Elliott. 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