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What is deadnaming? Bringing to light (surfacing) their “former” name?

What is deadnaming? Bringing to light (surfacing) their “former” name?

PokeMed said: 

What is deadnaming? Bringing to light (surfacing) their “former” name?

 yes, using a trans person's birth name/name before they transitioned 

like I wouldn't dead name as an insult/on purpose but I don't think it constitutes a hate crime

fluentes said: 

like I wouldn't dead name as an insult/on purpose but I don't think it constitutes a hate crime

Agree.  It occurs to me “deadnaming” might not be used maliciously, if for example the person was known to you before the transition. Isn’t the malintent viewed more in light of  outting trans person’s dox by revealing their former name as a way of disparaging what they say on Twitter.

Okay like, I understand how some would not respond well to having the gender of their name flipped around, and while I don't agree with banning over it I see how websites could end up feeling a corporate pull to tow those lines based on what the political climate was starting to look like, but I'm finding people being like:  

Some Twitter users commented that they plan to leave the platform in response to the policy change. "This will be my last tweet and I will no longer be on Twitter for the sake of my own safety," one Twitter user wrote on Wednesday.

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I don't understand your post?

It's interesting also how many trans activists have doxxed & made death threats to people (mostly women) who reject their ideology/challenge them. Like the Jeffery Marsh controversy and the JK Rowling death threats. ffs, who isn't safe here. they need to seriously chill

if it's related to doxing then it makes sense and I'd agree with a ban, but I'd assume a trans person's dox is more likely tied to their current name not their previous one 

Turncoat said: 

Okay like, I understand how some would not respond well to having the gender of their name flipped around, and while I don't agree with banning over it I see how websites could end up feeling a corporate pull to tow those lines based on what the political climate was starting to look like, but I'm finding people being like:  

Some Twitter users commented that they plan to leave the platform in response to the policy change. "This will be my last tweet and I will no longer be on Twitter for the sake of my own safety," one Twitter user wrote on Wednesday.

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Safety. 

For the sake of their own safety. 

Am I missing something here? 

 do you agree and think they aren't safe??