Were any of them trans? Maybe. But, I find it much more likely that several were stereotype breaking lesbians who bristled at the expectations placed upon them by society.
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Replying to @toleratefreedom @BrBabblingBooks
Look the very fact that we even have this list of pseudonyms recorded at all means that everyone on this list was outed at some point in history Meaning the pretense was moot and they *were* revealed as women whether they liked it or not
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Which means if they actually wanted to, they could've called for their work to be republished under their legal name, but they didn't Again, that's why they're on this list, as opposed to someone like Charlotte Bronte who embraced being outed
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It’s not like butch lesbians with feminine birth names are known for never, ever wanting to self-determine whether people get to keep calling them that, either, like…
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Replying to @chrysopoetics @arthur_affect and
“But have you considered perhaps… a lesbian?” really is not the counterargument against ‘is it ever valid to respect a person choosing to use a neutral or masculine name as an adult and without parental involvement’ that people seem to think it is
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Yeah there's plenty of people in Vernon Lee's situation today who would firmly and confidently tell you they aren't trans men, they're butch cis lesbians, but would also tell you not to fucking call them "Violet"
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I mean hell I know a (butch, cis) lesbian who’s viscerally uncomfortable with her birth name but hasn’t found another she’s committed to long-term and—even also knowing “literally don’t have an option other than the one she doesn’t like”—that makes using it feel vicariously bad
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Replying to @chrysopoetics @arthur_affect and
Because it turns out not having an alternative to use yet doesn’t mean I’m not forcing her to engage with/“as” a name I know she doesn’t want or feel okay interacting with, and that’s an intrinsically hostile act
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Replying to @chrysopoetics @arthur_affect and
I’ll call people who hurt me in informal contexts their formal/professional names as a flex all day long, but I can’t wrap my head around the choice to bring back something that’s not in current use at all a) making sense, let alone b) not being done because you want to attack
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Yes I'm not saying I don't have the right to call "Sargon of Akkad" Carl Benjamin if I want Or, God forbid, that this is equivalent to deadnaming a trans person But it's obviously something I do because I don't like or respect Carl Benjamin
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Remember when Charlie Sheen pulled this shit Started making a point of calling Chuck Lorre by his birth name, Chaim Levine And when people were like "You're coming off antisemitic here" he was like "No, I'm calling HIM out for being ashamed of his Jewish heritage"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chrysopoetics and
And it's like whatever it is you think you're doing you're being a prick
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chrysopoetics and
He did immediately turn it on himself too, going "Hey if someone called me out and said my name was Carlos Éstevez would they be racist against Latinos" Well if they did it in that aggressive tone of voice yeah maybe
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