• affiliate@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    That year, she legally changed her name and gender to distance herself from her father.

    this wording doesn’t sit well with me. it makes it seem like she “became” transgender solely to piss of elon musk

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      3 months ago

      Changing your legal gender is not what makes someone trans. There are tons of trans folks that never change their legal gender for lots of different reasons, even if they’re theoretically able to. It’s just one of the steps that trans folks might take, and not typically an early step, but it’s by no means a binary that defines whether someone is trans or not.