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you've used an assumed name as long as I've known you, people seem to respect that even though they are playing your little game of pretend. Reading this was painful.
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I don't ask people who use my old name to use my new name - I tell them they can use whatever name they want. I'm also 100% fine with people telling me if they feel a sense of pretend with my real name. This is typically not the case with pronouns.
Then it seems fine because you don't mind. But what if you did mind but I called you by your old nam regardless? At the very least that would be rude and uncivil I'd say.
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Agreed - as I said in the article, I use people's preferred pronouns and advocate that others do too!
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