I don’t use it, but i’ll forever call it Twitter.

  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    When saying the name of a trans person, it’s when you use their previous name from before their transition. E.g. saying Ellen Page instead of Elliot Page.

    Presumably it can also mean just calling someone by their previous name that they prefer to leave behind, even if not trans.

    I have no idea who Musk’s child is and no desire to look it up.

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      3 months ago

      He (or she, I really don’t remember) became famous from receiving a really bad name.

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        3 months ago

        Different child, I think. Vivian Wilson is Musk’s trans child who has disowned him. She’s 20 now. I don’t know what her birth name was but “X AE A-XII” was the one born in 2020 that was all over the news for having an absolutely insane name.

        Though most of the rest of his kids names aren’t much better. “Techno Mechanicus Musk” is in that list, as is “Exa Dark Sideræl Musk”. He has 11 children and counting, and their names have gotten increasingly more unhinged as time goes on. So for all I know Vivian did have some insane name that she abandoned.

        Anyway, she changed her last name and disowned her father when she came out as trans and he responded by posting all over Twitter that she had been, and I quote, “killed by the woke mind virus”. As in he literally told the world his child was dead, rather than publicly accept his daughter as the person she is.