All the news on his speech seems to be about HS2 but I think that this is important too.

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    1 year ago

    If you change your name, and I believe people shouldn’t be able to change their name, is it ok for me to only use your old name?

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      1 year ago

      How do you know my old name? You aso me my name and I tell you.

      Someone choosing their own name is already common enough, and is not a question of distortion of language. It’s not the same as pronouns.

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          1 year ago

          Its irrelevant for this topic of discussion. Pronouns are a linguistic element with already clearly defined rules, proper nouns are chosen and have always been chosen. To answer you I’d say calling someone by some name other than theirs to be disparaging is not OK, referring to someone using a pronoun corresponding to their biological sex is perfectly OK.