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.
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.