BigShoots t1_irx0udf wrote on October 11, 2022 at 5:51 PM

Reply to comment by bookdealmaybe in The hidden transphobia in "The Art of Being Normal" by hayzulhay

> Leo, a trans person, DELIBERATELY Deadnaming Kate cause he was mad at her?

So both you and OP have mentioned this. Is it not something that could absolutely happen during an argument that involves a transgender person? And so doesn't the author have a right and a good reason to include it as part of the story?

If you expect a realistic book about trangendered people to be scrubbed clean of all transphobia, then you're not living in reality and just looking for things to be upset about.

bookdealmaybe t1_irx1tni wrote on October 11, 2022 at 5:58 PM

Someone deliberately deadnaming a trans person can 100% happen.

A trans person who knows how being deadnamed feels deliberately deadnaming a trans person usually doesn't. I won't say never, but most trans people would NEVER deadname someone deliberately if for no other reason than it opens them up to getting deadnamed.

Transphobia in books about trans issues is fine. I'm not saying there's any issue with Alicia having an issue with Leo being trans. I'm not saying there's any issue in anything in Almost Perfect (another book about trans teens) even though the trans character gets beat the fuck up.

This issue is that only a cis writer would have a TRANS character deliberately deadname another trans character.