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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 9248547" data-attributes="member: 57112">While I think that the linked blog post is perhaps extremely uncharitable towards Alexander, it is true that his 2016 post "On Deadnaming" and his refusal for an additional two years until Jennell reached out personally to ask him to stop deadnaming her was, if probably not in nearly as bad faith and it's presented here, still incredibly wrong-headed and ignorant, and that was just as much true when he posted it in 2016 as here in 2024, where he's on Twitter standing by it.I don't think anybody can (rightfully) accuse Alexander of out and out transphobia or bigotry of any kind, as acerbic as he can be he's nearly always been on the side of social justice, but this was a bad look then and his current attempts to defend it are a bad look now.</blockquote>