The difference is, you almost never see anyone doing this except, like, teenagers on Tumblr AFAICT this is generally considered at best tacky and at worst a cruel violation by "trans activism" as a whole The correct principle is to respect how people referred to themselves
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Now I'm thinking about Julie Phillips' biography of Alice Sheldon/James Tiptree (one of my favorite biographies) and how it uses the device of talking about Tiptree with he/him pronouns as though he were a separate person from Alice Sheldon ("Alli")
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It's an interesting, if risky compromise It's clearly rooted in the fact that Sheldon herself frequently talked and wrote that way about her double life in hindsight, after her outing -- "Alli" and "Jim" were extremely different personae who lived in different worlds
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There's no way the TERFs wouldn't have torn this book apart if it'd come out in the 2010s though
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