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Everybody deserves the respect of being called by their preferred name. Even children know this. If your name is Pat, and somebody insists on calling you Frank instead, they are just an asshole.

This has nothing to do with ideology. It's just basic politeness.



Both legal name and chosen alias are used in the article to describe each person as they are introduced to the reader. That should be sufficient.




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