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[–] 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I was told the term comes from your dead name being what they put on your tombstone. The name you'd be unwillingly known as after you died. The erasure of trans lives by transphobic family members. I don't think its wrong to use it outside of that context but it would be bad to lose that history.

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