Trans people all have different relationships to the concept and even terminology surrounding deadnaming — and that’s okay, because this is an integral part of our struggle to self-determine our identities. The problems come when cisnormative media and society at large decides to make those decisions for us.
I don’t have to worry, as none of the skeletons in my closet pertain to physically constraining a woman with the aim of stripping her nude while she struggled against me. That’s one of the perks of being a bit of an asshole instead of an attempted rapist. I also doubt that a woman would fabricate a sex assault claim to get me fired or socially shunned; …