Started with the name my ex think suits me. Sounded too gender neutral and common. Tried bunch of names I can think of who were my transition goals. How did I tried? Used that name on food order and also imagined how it would feel like to get referred to that name.

Didn't like any of those either so I looked up list of woman's name. And chose something unique (at least in English speaking country) and has meaning that I feel very connected to.

Take your time

As much as I wish the claims are true, it sounds like too good to be true

I gotta finish this game. Has been postponing coz Alan Wake DLC was way more spooky than the main one.

Good question. This is my personal view so it might not represent general opinion.

I think it depends on whether that was intentional or not. Just like misgendereing, someone referring me by my deadname isn't a big deal if it was a mistake. It would take some time to associate me with my chosen name so it's understandable.

However, if it was intentional (or more likely, seems like intentional), that person is not acknowledging my new gender and chosen name, and that is disrespectful or even rude.

I'm trying think of relatable experience for cis folks. Say u r in 20s and some extended family member calls u by ur old nickname when u were really young. Probably there's no bad intention in this case, but u might get this uncomfortable feeling that

'that (nickname) does not describe me any more. I've grown out of that (nickname)'

That emotion could be similar to what deadnaming feels like for trans folks. Of course u have to amplify that negative emotion by like 1000x.

Lol I have similar story. Met someone from my university course 10 yrs ago recently at sports hobby group. Asked if he took this course at the university.

He was shocked and asked: "wtf how did u know?" "I was there too" "But I don't know (or recognize) u"

Guess I pass as my gender? It gave me euphoria haha. I didn't tell him my deadname tho

I am shocked too wtf. I feel bad for men who went through that BS.

We need more competition in HW space tho

Not just Latinos. Met high school friends today and one of them is very racist and sort of anti immigrant but we are all first generation immigrants. Yes he has a stable job so he thinks he's a good Canadian and thinks being anti-immigrant attitude doesn't apply to him

Why not both?

Very unfortunate to the people affected Canada should try to recruit these researchers

I think this problem will get worse because many websites that's used for "your own research" will lose human traffic to watch ads and more bots just scraping their data, reducing motivation to keep the websites running. Most people just take the least resistant path so AI search will be the default soon I think

Yes, I hate this timeline