Using trans person’s birth name is ‘violent act’: MIT module

Using trans person’s birth name is ‘violent act’: MIT module

• ‘Deadnaming’ is ‘violent act,’ can ‘trigger a trauma response’

"A professor who calls a person by their birth name and not their new chosen name commits a “violent act,” according to an LGBT training offered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The “LGBTQ 101+” training is one of three sexual harassment modules offered to faculty, staff, and graduate students at the private university in Cambridge...