The title is extremely confused but i think i understand after reading
Did you message the mod to discuss? Transphobia is a field where a lot of people use technicalities to normalize poor practices
also, would that mean that you would use male pronouns for Ms. Manning when talking about her actions at the time? Most people would say that's unacceptable and so would i. I think that would put into focus why the imperfect solution of retroactive nomenclature is preferable to deadnaming
Ms. Manning did request during her trial that her new name be used so i think probably she's fine with her deadname not being used for her actions in that period.
but putting arguable decisions out on the public record is why this community exists, so thank you for posting!!
we don't do that here