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by ryan-c 299 days ago
A large portion of your submissions and comments are anti-trans. Pronouns and names are not "preferred".
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That is your ideological position and you are of course welcome to hold it.
Everybody deserves the respect of being called by their preferred name. Even children know this. If your name is Pat, and somebody insists on calling you Frank instead, they are just an asshole.

This has nothing to do with ideology. It's just basic politeness.

Both legal name and chosen alias are used in the article to describe each person as they are introduced to the reader. That should be sufficient.
Transphobia is widespread. I guess I know which websites and individuals to block, anyway.