A lot of folk who go to the trouble of changing their first name, be they trans, cis or otherwise, likely have negativity attached to their original name from which they would like to move on.
Anyone who knew me by my old name and hasn’t been updated of my new name, doesn’t know my new name for a good reason. So on the very rare occasion I get deadnamed these days, it absolutely scares the hell out of me.
I’m nb and my name change wasn’t specifically for gendered reasons, but for those whose was, being purposefully deadnamed adds a whole new level of hate crime to the situation and puts them at risk of violence from anyone unhinged enough who overhears.
A lot of folk who go to the trouble of changing their first name, be they trans, cis or otherwise, likely have negativity attached to their original name from which they would like to move on.
Anyone who knew me by my old name and hasn’t been updated of my new name, doesn’t know my new name for a good reason. So on the very rare occasion I get deadnamed these days, it absolutely scares the hell out of me.
I’m nb and my name change wasn’t specifically for gendered reasons, but for those whose was, being purposefully deadnamed adds a whole new level of hate crime to the situation and puts them at risk of violence from anyone unhinged enough who overhears.