A name that disempowers
summary
A trans employee has a legal deadname stuck to passport, credit card and employment contract, and HR glues in local workarounds that later fail; Gmail and the calendar surface the deadname in headers and the corporate directory is overridden by Gmail address book precedence, so colleagues keep greeting the wrong name. The incident lasts weeks, prompting email avoidance, missed collaboration and persistent anxiety; the talk cites a concrete harm statistic — 40% suicide attempt rate — and gives a timeline of fixes.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Start
- 2:33One day, the stitches broke
- 3:00My work uses gmail
- 4:11I couldn't e-mail people
- 4:31E-mail anxiety
- 8:14Address book takes precedence
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