But that’s the issue - people who are transphobic often say that using someone’s chosen name is “strange” and “confusing” because they don’t want to admit that their real issue with it is that it’s being used for gender expression. If their actual issue was with chosen names as a whole, stage names would irritate them just as much.
Transphobes claim it’s too confusing to call someone by a new name but have no problem with people changing their name when they get married or just because they want to
But that’s the issue - people who are transphobic often say that using someone’s chosen name is “strange” and “confusing” because they don’t want to admit that their real issue with it is that it’s being used for gender expression. If their actual issue was with chosen names as a whole, stage names would irritate them just as much.
Transphobes claim it’s too confusing to call someone by a new name but have no problem with people changing their name when they get married or just because they want to
you can see it when they defend Rowling like she is the queen of “gender” uniformity.
Yeah, exactly.