Source: https://xcancel.com/EliErlick/status/2025973174454870071
In 1967, a 22-year-old trans woman won a rural Wyoming beauty pageant. She entered the contest just a year after transitioning. Unfortunately, the judges disqualified her when she came out to a competitor. I guess trans women have an unfair advantage in beauty pageants?
As a side note, I’d like to commend Bulletin for doing a better job than the New York Times or BBC and using her preferred pronouns.
Yeah the shift to maintaining post transition name and pronouns when talking about pre translation selves is a relatively recent linguistic shift
Hell, even within my family, I noticed the shift happening. My parents asked how to go about it when talking about pre-transition me.
I thought about it and I think it comes down to personal taste. Some prefer to cut ties with their pre-transition selves entirely, others don’t as much or don’t at all.
For me, I concluded that using the pre-transition names and pronouns would be suitable only in a certain user case.
That is, if we’d be talking about pre-transition me, with people who only knew me before transition (and likely wouldn’t support transition nor meet me again much). Fortunately, that’s very few people.
Elsewhere, only use the post-transition names and pronouns.