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CMV: We should not have to alter history when a transgender person comes out.

I support a transgender person’s right to transition and live as the other gender and be called by their preferred pronouns and all of that.  The problem is in the idea that the person’s whole past life and works must now be amended and everyone can no longer reference their previous name or gender when referencing past events.  I find the insistence on this to be offensive and, quite frankly, ridiculous.

Take Elliot Page for example.  I distinctly remember watching a film several years ago with a female actress, playing a female character, being feminine, identifying as female, being identified by the other actors as female, and (presumably) having female sex organs to prove it.  When talking about this film, being filmed in the past, I should go by the name  of the actress listed in the credits, Ellen Page.  I cannot honestly say I saw a man playing that role in that film.  That would be lying.

If Elliot decides to make films in the future, I will refer to him by his new name.  It’s the same as an author using a pseudonym for many years then switching to their real name, like James Tiptree switching to her real name of Alice Sheldon.  I refer to her Tiptree books as written by her pseudonym.

Insisting that other people lie en-masse about the reality they experienced is no different from insisting transgender people lie and cover up their own experience.  It’s backward and narcissistic in the extreme.
gpt
It’s common practice to refer to someone in the past using their current identity. For example, you’d say, “Hillary Clinton was born in Chicago” even though that wasn’t her last name at the time. 

It’s not lying. For Elliot you could phrase it something like “Elliot Page played the character of a pregnant girl before he transitioned.”