Deadname
Today, Explained
Vox
4.3 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There are lots of ways to send money internationally. |
| 0:03.0 | You can stuff it into a birthday card, put it in an envelope, you can go to the bank and |
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| 0:31.0 | I'm Lucas Waldron. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm a multimedia journalist at ProPublica. |
| 0:35.4 | My colleague and I, we were able to identify 85 murders of transgender people over the |
| 0:40.5 | last three and a half years. |
| 0:43.5 | Those 85 are only the cases we were able to actually find that had actually been reported. |
| 0:49.8 | We know that there are many more murders of trans people than simply 85, but because |
| 0:56.3 | trans people are often misgendered, they are frequently dead named. |
| 1:03.8 | Dead naming means that you're using a name to describe someone that they no longer use |
| 1:07.6 | and no longer identify with. |
| 1:09.8 | Frequently what we see is the ID that they carry has a name on it that was their name |
| 1:14.3 | given at birth, but it's not the name that anyone really knows them by. |
| 1:17.8 | You know, trans people often change their name. |
| 1:20.1 | I myself changed my name from my birth name to the name that I chose for myself, which |
| 1:24.3 | is Lucas. |
| 1:25.9 | There's actually another problem called misgendering, which essentially means that you're calling |
| 1:30.7 | someone using a pronoun that is not how they identify and is not how they present themselves. |
| 1:36.6 | Because trans people are frequently dead named and misgendered by law enforcement, cases |
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