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posted by [personal profile] gingicat at 10:21am on 2017-03-31
I was curious as to whether her chosen name had similar consonant sounds to her birth name.
eftychia: Photo of clouds shaped like an eye and arched eyebrow (sky-eye)
posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 11:16am on 2017-03-31
Well there is that. (Personally I'm more interested in how many of us pick our names to do that, than whether any particular stranger did so. But yeah, I get it.) But I'm not sure that's a journalistically valid reason to routinely include trans people's deadnames in stories about them, as many publications still do.

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