• @kescusay@lemmy.worldM
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    381 year ago

    For the record, folks: Deadnaming a trans person will earn you an instant, permanent ban.

    You may now return to your regularly scheduled real-life-imitating-The-Onion content.

      • @solarbabies@lemmy.world
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        321 year ago

        for real, I’m pro trans rights and I still sometimes accidentally deadname Elliot Page because I have dyscalculia. if you ban me for that aren’t you being ableist?

        also yes context is very important.

        if I say “when Caitlyn went by the name [X], and she used [Y] pronoun, [Z] thing happened to [Y]”, I assume I will still get banned for deadnaming even though I’m innocently adding clarity to a conversation.

        to make things worse, if someone is trans and gender fluid, and I call them by a name or pronoun they used last time I knew about them, now I’ve committed a crime of which I had no knowledge.

        this blanket condemnation of deadnaming is just dumb. it requires nuance.

    • @unreasonabro@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      See? They’re just gonna turn this place into reddit no matter what. lemmy’s gonna end up just as shitty as that. Petty fascists ruining everything. Fuck off with this stupidity. And the fact that this is posted with unironic intention is absolutely stunning, honestly it does read like an Onion headline so i guess kudos for that but like, what are you even doing having power here, missing so fundamental a point as this? its just embarrassing… The Onion itself would fire you