For always and for always, I pray remember me - Retroactive transexualism
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Retroactive transexualism
This question arose out of a discussion about bugs on facebook. We were discussing whether, if one changes one's sex on facebook, status messages from prior to the change should be altered to reflect the new status. That is, should a sex change be applied retroactively. My feeling was that it shouldn't, in line with most changes of this sort - if I change my name, I would still refer to my older self as my old name, etc. and I think that this is the legal perspective. However, the chap I was talking to suggested that he thought those he knew who'd gone through the change would prefer it to be taken retroactively, which perhaps does make sense if it's seen more as a legal acceptance after the fact of something which was already the case.
A lot of people on here have a lot more exerience and knowledge about issues like this, however, so I thought I'd ask and see what your views are.
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The only point that I would raise is that anyone who is "stealth", ie, would rather that no-one knew they were trans, would obviously want the retroactive changes.
And even if someone is not "stealth", they may wish to exercise choice in who they talk about their past with, rather than the information being there on facebook for anyone to see.
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| Date: | November 7th, 2008 11:20 am (UTC) |
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I believe that name changes are, whilst not strictly retroactive, almost so. That is the change of name declaration you sign (which has fantastic language) forbids you from ever referring to yourself under your old name, or using that name ever again.
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