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… Probably have heard of Aimee Stephens has passed away last week. She was the trans woman who was fired from the funeral home when she transitioned, her case went all the way to the Supreme Court which should issue their ruling next month.

The news media has been deadnaming her in death.

News sites backtrack after 'deadnaming' transgender woman in obituary
The New York Times and The Associated Press published the birth name of trans woman Aimee Stephens, igniting swift and fierce criticism from LGBTQ advocates.
NBC News
By Tim Fitzsimons
May 15, 2020

Following the death of Aimee Stephens — the transgender woman at the center of a high-profile LGBTQ discrimination case pending before the Supreme Court — a different name appeared in several news articles announcing that she had died Tuesday.

The New York Times, The Associated Press and the Detroit News were among the media outlets that published Stephens’ former legal name, the male name she had used prior to her gender transition in 2013. The publication of her previous name, colloquially referred to as “deadnaming,” drew swift and fierce reaction from LGBTQ rights groups and advocates.

“It serves no purpose of integrity to publish a transgender person’s ‘deadname,’ or former name, as the @nytimes did here in Aimee Stephens’s obituary. This should be immediately revised. Aimee deserves better,” Lambda Legal, an LGBTQ legal organization, tweeted Tuesday evening.

“The Grey Lady should know better than this in 2020,” the National Center for Lesbian Rights tweeted later that night. “Deadnaming and misgendering individuals is wrong, and also sends a message to trans or non-binary people that their existence is not valid.”

The AP and the NY Times saw the light and made corrections and an apology.

Times editor Patrick LaForge also apologized on Twitter and said the incident would lead to updated style guidance.
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Lauren Easton, a spokesperson for the news organization, told NBC News that the AP Stylebook was updated in June 2019 to include guidance on deadnaming.

The stylebook, which is influential in guiding the way many U.S. newsrooms write about complex topics, now reads: “Use the name by which a transgender person now lives. Refer to a previous name, sometimes called a deadname, only if relevant to the story.”

To bad they didn’t follow their own stylebook.

This is a couple of years old but it is still relevant today

Laverne Cox lambastes ‘deadnaming.’ What is it and why is it a problem?
The Washington Post
By Allyson Chiu
August 14, 2018

Many years ago, Emmy-nominated actress and LGBT activist Laverne Cox said she thought about committing suicide.

In an emotional post shared Monday to Twitter and Instagram, Cox, a transgender woman, wrote that she had planned to leave behind notes — one in her pocket and several others placed around her home.

These notes had a special purpose, Cox wrote. They were intended to prevent her from being misgendered and deadnamed, experiences with which members of the transgender community are all too familiar.
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“Being misgendered and deadnamed in my death felt like it would be the ultimate insult to the psychological and emotional injuries I was experiencing daily as a black trans woman in New York City, the injuries that made me want to take my own life,” she wrote.

When we are dead we have no control how our family identifies us, that is when a living will and a will is important especially if we are estranged  from our family. They will be the ones who name us in our death so if you don’t want them to handle our affairs in death you better have a living will and a will naming who you want to take care of your estate.

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As trans people I think that one of our major concerns is interacting with law enforcement officers.

Officers charged with allegedly slamming transgender woman's face on ground
The altercation outside a Kansas City, Missouri, beauty supply store was captured on video.
NBC News
By Dennis Romero
May 16, 2020

Two police officers in Kansas City, Missouri, have been charged with misdemeanor assault after video surfaced of a transgender woman's head being slammed on the ground during an arrest last year.

The top prosecutor in Jackson County, Jean Peters Baker, on Friday announced the grand jury indictment, which includes allegations of misdemeanor assault, against officers Matthew Brummett, 37, and Charles Prichard, 47.

She said the case, which includes cellphone video from a motorist who happened upon the May 24 confrontation, had to go to a grand jury because the Kansas City Police Department did not submit a "probable cause statement" that could have triggered standard prosecution.
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Prosecutors said in their statement that some of the actions described by the witness and seen in the video were "in contrast to the officers’ statements" after the incident.

I don’t know but it seems to me that the police do nothing until the videos start surfacing and then we all can see for ourselves the police version differs from the witnesses.