If it helps, think of it this way: If a friend gets married and changes their last name, you wouldn’t stubbornly insist on using the one you’re more familiar with.

What some people don’t get is that not everyone wants to be part of movements that demand rigid conformity and constant “call outs” of every “microagression.” Real people have a lot of things going on most of us don’t want to spend our lives constantly apologizing for everything. This is a big part of why people don’t…

Good points all, but people should have realistic expectations.

Is it not similar to Cassius Clay and Muhammad Ali?
You can respect the person and call him Ali, but also historically acknowledge that Sonny Liston fought the then Cassius Clay.

People all deserve to live how they like (assuming it doesn’t harm others) and be called by their preferred name and pronouns. Congrats to Elliot Page for taking a courageous step.

Using the name a person chose to assign themself is a form of respect and civility, no doubt.

Using both names in meta, as a description of events that have taken place (ie the entire concept of a transition), isn’t deadnaming. That is ludicrous bullshit. Not even universally held in lgbt Reddit/Twitter or anywhere I know of.

“The TJA informs journalists and other members of the media that “there’s never a reason to publish someone’s deadname in a story” [emphasis ours]—something that happened repeatedly this week in relation to Page.”

I would his former name on first reference, as it’s the entire point of the story.

It’s getting so hard to communicate these days. Every god damned thing you say, write or do is a crime against humanity.

By saying “Elliot, formerly known as X”, and then never saying X again. You just have to say it once, because X is the famous name, and then people will know who you’re talking about. No one had ever heard of “Elliot Page” before this moment, so obviously you have to tell people who you’re referring to. That’s the…

I was taught in j-school to write for clarity and that if an activist group tried to police your language, to throw their tips in the trash. you can’t cover this story without using the both names. otherwise there is no story.

I would probably walk right by that and think nothing of it because, get this, it’s just a pull rope. I’ve seen plenty of very similar knots used for pull ropes on garage doors, trailer doors, pull-down attic steps, etc. and I’m pretty sure none of those knots were tied with any ill intent. They’re good for dragging…

Here’s my take.  It’s unfortunate that Bubba Wallace got assigned to the one stall where one guy was bored and tied a noose.

Meh. Make medical exemption the only one allowed. No religious exemption for public schools, and no “personal belief” exemption at all.

And they still didn’t vaccinate him! There kid was in agony and it didn’t change their minds... Arghhhhggggggggggg

Jesus. That should be a Wikipedia entry.

yeah, and if he had done more, the writer here would’ve just written that up as him going through the motions (which probably would’ve been accurate) and criticizing there too... so basically blogs like Splinter have their content no matter what he decides to do on a day like today.

3 things can be true: