Doesn't even need to be a particularly shitty name. All that's necessary is the individual feels strongly enough about not being called their deadname.

Irish names can be tough. Ive only text chatted with an online friend (This was early 2000 so voice chat wasnt common outside of raiding/coop games), and that meant that Ive trained in the completely wrong pronounciation of Siobhan (Im swedish) which made it weird when I met her and needed to retrain my brain.

Honestly, I've known someone who just wanted to escape a shitty family and cut ties.

Removing their given name was a way to do it.

Some parents really pick the shittiest names imaginable for their offspring and no one should blame the latter for changing them legally.

One day all those girls who were named Khaleesi are gonna absolutely fill up the cemetery of deadnames.

I think I know the right way to say the name you replied to, but how the hell pronounce the one you wrote?

I think the concept applies to everything.

I, for example, am deadnaming twitter.

Holden Tudiks

well... You HAVE To deadname twitter, I mean musk is pro dead naming since he would do it with his daughter all the time. So dead naming twitter is the right thing to do according to its new owner.

Twitter has a deadname. It's the one case where I recommend using it.

That kinda tracks, actually, from the little I've studied the Irish language. Trying to understand it from the English alphabet can't help, though, right?

For sure don't know how that's supposed to be said, but I'd bet they just go by Izzy.

I was told the term comes from your dead name being what they put on your tombstone. The name you'd be unwillingly known as after you died. The erasure of trans lives by transphobic family members. I don't think its wrong to use it outside of that context but it would be bad to lose that history.

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

That's interesting! I always assumed it was the literal "that name is no longer with us", but that makes a lot of sense.

It's always simpler than it looks, till it ain't. Love it.

Had a friend with a dog named Sionach. Their vet's reception person always squirmed, apparently.

I really prefer to mix them. Xitter has such a nice pronunciation, considering the amount of fecal matter spewed into its oh so vaunted halls.

I like to refer to tweets as Xcremenets now :)

Corps aren’t people so fuck em.

Mormons

It’s Xitter. The Xi is pronounced as in Xi Jinping

I always thought it was a 'dead' name in the sense that a person you no longer associate with is 'dead to me now'.

Like, 'dead' in the sense of defunct, obsolete, deprecated, no longer relevant, no longer functional.

Earliest sign of me being trans was that I hated my name, and would always use an alias whenever possible 😅