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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
My 20yo son is transgender.  He prefers that we use his current name even when we talk about him before he came out.  The logic (which makes sense to me) is: he was always a boy when he was a little kid, we just didn't know it yet. And he's the same person he always was.
gpt
Was just saying this to someone on this thread actually! I'd never refer to my trans friend as their old name when I would talk about their past when they were originally male, 


However, my friend is not famous. In my opinion, there is where the true ignorance would lay if I didn't refer to them as their current name in all contexts. Catlynn, on the other hand, is famous and what I (naively) assumed was that everybody knew what I meant when I was calling her Bruce. That it wasn't an intentional dead naming? 


So I guess the difference is... Fame? 😂


Anyway, i learned from mistake and it isn't going to cock up my day calling her Catlynn in every matter of context! ☺️