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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?
Given the time period and how uninformed the author must be on trans issues, I can look past the fact they use male pronouns and her deadname to refer to her pre-transition, a lot of people still get that wrong today.
There is one odd sentence where they use her chosen name but male pronouns. They were talking about her saving up for surgery, so pre-transition, but they otherwise use her deadname when discussing that phase of her life. Just struck me as odd.
Its just proof that these people have always and will always exist. It isnt a result of LGBT propaganda that modern times like to blame it on.
I think it's because Stephanie described it after all that happened. When Stephanie described it, she had already transitioned.
The saving up happened pre-transition.
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.