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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9181983" data-attributes="member: 7006">The fuller story that I seem to recall from many years ago was that when Janelle originally heard about Justin naming the term after her, she made the comment that since her last name had an 'S' that the correct usage should have been 'Jacquaysing'.  Justin was iffy on the proposition not because he had anything against her or her comment, but more just from what sounded better.  Which of course every single person who creates names has to do, because bad names can really mess things up for you.  He thought the former way just sounded like a cooler term than the latter, so he was reticent to change it (since ultimately it was just a random term for a map generation technique, nothing that seemed all that important in the grand scheme of things.)I think then discussion went further when she discovered that most of Justin's articles from the past that referenced things all still used Janelle's deadname when discussing products that Janelle had written in the years past, and when she asked him to remove her deadname as well, it took a bit of discussion for him to understand why that was important.  To him at the time (and I think we're talking even earlier than when the trans-rights movement really gained steam here in the U.S.) since the products he was referencing had her deadname on them, he thought to change them would cause confusion.  Eventually though he learned enough about the situation to realize that Janelle's preference outweighed any potential confusion, and thus Justin was going to go back and change all of this previous references as she desired.Whether or not that flushing of Janelle's deadname happened first a while ago, or whether Justin just coupled his documentation changes with the decision they both made to remove her name from the 'BLANK-ing the Dungeon' terminology so they happened simultaneously, I do not know.But whatever the case (and regardless of how people feel about him), I applaud Justin for really learning about this trans issue through his communications with Janelle... and ultimately understanding and empathizing with her situation to acceed to her wishes and be more than happy to do so.</blockquote>

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