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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago

Can't we just start calling it "Formerly Twitter" instead?

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Can't we just start calling it "Formerly Twitter" instead?

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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago

Pretty much the title. I think you all know what I’m talking about.

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…what the heck is “deadnaming”?
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  Using a trans persons’s birth name rather than their preferred name. If done purposefully, it’s extremely insulting.
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    Thanks, I hadn’t heard the term.
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    Doesn’t have to be a trans person

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