Transphobes’s thing about “deadnaming” trans people is just nonsensical to me, and not even just for the fact that they won’t call a person who was born male by a “female name” or vice versa. Like, who the hell do they think they are, the “official naming police” or something? People can and do legally change their names, and it doesn’t have to have anything to do with transitioning to a different gender necessarily. I feel like to be truly consistent, transphobes should have to refer to EVERYBODY by their name at birth. Like if they talk about former US Presidents, they should speak of Leslie King and William Jefferson Blythe III, among others. (Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton, respectively)
And also, of course, there’s names like “Leslie” that I just mentioned that are really gender-neutral. Hell, my full first name is “Christopher” but I generally go by “Chris,” and that’s a name that I’ve often heard women named “Christina” or something like that being known as. Remember, Saturday Night Live based a whole series of skits on a name like that, lol.