I don’t know what Aimee’s deadname is and I don’t GAF, but it seems massively idiotic to pretend as though whatever name Aimee went by for FIFTY TWO YEARS of her life wasn’t significant. To reporters, I get that it can seem — falsely — like including someone’s “old name” is little more than a historical fact to flesh out a story. Some people choose stage names for their careers. The point of this post is to talk about deadnaming trans people. To then write about a woman who is trans and remind the reader of her deadname under the pretense that what she was called at birth is important to understanding who she is today actually evokes the image of a man for readers and contributes to the insidious social understanding that “this person claimed to be a woman but was really a man.”. The above-linked article from NBC News is titled, “A transgender person’s deadname is nobody’s business. © 2020 • The Progressive Inc. • 30 West Mifflin Street, Suite 703 • Madison, Wisconsin 53703 • (608)257-4626.
The white Other still benefits from white supremacy.
Denying this is to ask people to willingly suspend disbelief and collectively pretend that truth doesn’t matter. And while I will spend the rest of my life fighting to make sure those kids know that she is wrong and that they are beautiful, deserving, and lovable just as they are, Navratilova still maintains a powerful voice — and her words are giving too much fuel to a movement that would inevitably eradicate us both. So, for me and other white trans people, this means that our experience is centered in conversations both about trans-ness and about discrimination and violence generally, to the exclusion of non-trans people of color and to the exclusion and erasure of trans people of color. I am transgender and transgressive, and I am part of a community that is dying because of our threat to the “order of things” as they are. Even now, people discriminate trans people and try to suppress them. Will that make a difference to the Supreme Court? Navratilova recently penned a piece in The Sunday Times arguing that women who are trans should not compete in women’s sports. His exact age and date of birth is unknown.
Trans men are not “real” men – they are trans men. The illegibility of a body with a petite frame, pubescent facial hair, flat chest, tight pants, and higher pitched voice invites stares. COTR LLC — ChicksOnRight.com. But a deadname is neither important nor necessary to include in any reporting, and it's particularly disrespectful in an obituary, which is meant to honor and commemorate someone's life. If Chase wants to deny reality and pretend he was born as the gender/name he currently chooses to live as, what do I care?