This isn't theoretical I mean we actually know what happened in the case of George Eliot -- she did *not* have the pseudonym because it was impossible to get published as a woman, because she was outed very early in her career and got published a lot anyway
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And yet she *did* continue to use the pseudonym and have a strong emotional attachment to it in the 20 years of it being public knowledge that "George Eliot" was really a woman named Marian Evans Lewes
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There were people in her life who specifically did want to drop the pseudonym so as to better use her as an inspiring example of a "woman writer" and she disliked this and pushed back against it I don't see why she'd react differently to you doing it now
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As someone who has been "mis-named" at several points in my life by people who had strong feelings about what I should be calling myself, rather than what I chose to call myself - whilst I appreciate the sentiment, some of the choices make me feel very uncomfortable.
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