While we’re waving journalism credentials around (Medill, ‘o3), I have actually worked as a journalist and can tell you it would be very easy to write a story about Page’s transition without deadnaming them.

Just going to fix the both-sides-ism in the article:

That is a photo of Clark St right near Wrigley Field. Very much a part of Chicago. I think this photo choice was likely to show that one of the busiest streets for restaurants and bars in Chicago is basically empty?

Huh? That is definitely Chicago. You can even zoom in on the photo (all the way to the left) and see “Chicago” on the banners hanging from the street posts. Chicago has lots of “normal” looking neighborhoods outside of the skyscraper-laden downtown.

Why, why is Newt Gingrich given a second of air time anywhere? He’s a disgraced relic of the 90's and has all the relevance today as a Chumbawamba concert.

I think your intentions were good with this comment, but you got it backwards. 

Can you please post the number for the Suicide Prevention Hotline on articles like this? It should be standard practice, even on a site that’s being actively dismantled by an herb.

National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255

As a grown ass adult, a year and a half, particularly if they have dabbled into the living together thing, is fine. You definitely have figured out whether this person is a disaster in most situations or not and whether you hate the same things or tolerate their way of loading the dishwasher.

Agreed. And if you are in a relationship that survived the stress and tumult of this year, I think you have one for the ages. My brother and his partner had just started living together four days a week when NYC went into lockdown and they were both told to work from home. They just moved into a bigger apartment and…

I don’t see the point of getting married at all, but if you’re going to do it, a year and a half is not that short a time as far as I have ever seen. Furthermore, I’ve seen people get married after a few months and still be together 20 years later, while I’ve seen people get married after a decade together and divorce…

My wife and I got engaged right at 6 months after we met. We had been dating for 5 months. I knew on the second date she was “the one”.

I got engaged after a year and a half of dating but also after a year of living together. People should obviously follow their own timelines, but after a year of cohabitation, there really wasn’t much doubt left that we were going to get married and give it a whirl. I think people want to be certain before they get…

What’s “j-school”?

Amazingly, I have read several articles about Elliot Page coming out and none of them used their deadname and it was clear who they were talking about.

As a former journalist who also went to j-school: nope. The story is not his name, the story is his announcement.

You went to a shitty j-school, then. It’s perfectly possible to cover this story without deadnaming Elliot, as evidenced by the HUNDREDS of outlets that properly covered it that way.

What purpose does the deadname serve here?

How would you use it, without calling him the deadname?

You absolutely can.

“there’s never a reason to publish someone’s deadname in a story”