The act of revealing or using a transgender person’s birth name without their permission is sometimes known as deadnaming, according to GLAAD.
Lacking imagination, bigots and transphobe trolls ‘deadname’ trans people on social media by misgendering them or using their pre-transition name.
They think they’re being clever, much like the close of drag shows or in older media when the wig is torn off, as in the movie Victor/Victoria when having shorter haircuts assure the expression of either having a penis or not having a urethrae.
Somehow such superficial and performative disclosures proport to be as outrageous as directly pulling someone’s pants down to reveal genitalia as in exhibitionism, because despite the absence of sexual assault by trans people in restroom facilities, your space was violated directly by someone not obeying the door sign on your chosen public water closet. Some people simply want a warm place to relieve themselves; to hell with your Nancy Mace psychopathy. No wig-hat means you are getting ‘raped’ by the misrepresentation no different than female Nazi collaborators being shorn in public upon liberation?
There even is a legal defense (gay/trans panic) for people who have committed violence because the person was not the gender that was expressed. It’s just not like FTC enforcement; there is no truth in advertising. This kind of panic may resemble the paraphilia in the Epstein files soon to be revealed.
As if performing misgendering/deadnaming amplifies the power of hateful slurs by its lack of enforcement, as if the orange monster beneath the combover was a human. The transphobia only reminds the target that exiting one place on the gender spectrum also brings a new sense of identity in contrast to the haters. Even the AutoPen has not been spared by Trumpist trolling, and as we’ve seen it’s easier to hate trans people than, say… Somalis or Afghans.
They did that to Rachel Levine.
Fuck those at HHS who did it.
Levine’s portrait now hangs in the HHS office, along with pictures of other federal officials who have led the U.S. Public Health Corps. But in recent weeks, the agency removed Levine’s name from her portrait and replaced it with her previous name, according to NPR.
An unnamed HHS staffer told NPR the change was “disrespectful” and shows “the erasure of transgender individuals by this administration."
Over the last year, the Trump administration has sought to roll back the rights of transgender and intersex people throughout the federal government.
Shortly after taking office in January, Trump signed an executive order banning transgender people from the military, which the Supreme Court ruled could be enforced as legal challenges play out. He also signed another executive order targeting gender-affirming healthcare.
The administration has also blocked citizens from choosing a sex marker on their passports that aligns with their gender identity.
Some transgender service members filed a lawsuit against the administration last month, arguing that they were illegally stripped of their retirement benefits when they were forced out of the military.
Levine has been targeted by anti-transgender rhetoric throughout her time in the federal government, she told NPR in January. Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, her image even appeared in anti-transgender GOP advertisements.
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Ergo #RogueAutoPen sum
