All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XX

[robkelk]

My body, my rules, my choice for my self-identification. If I want to call myself Throatwobbler Mangrove, that's my choice and you don't get to call me Raymond Luxury-Yacht any more, whether I've had an operation to change my nose or not. And my choice of reference there isn't (just) something completely different; it's to show that this has been an issue longer than some of this thread's participants have been alive.

Lynn's body, Lynn's rules, Lynn's choice for Lynn's self-identification. No joke.

Geth's body, Geth's rules, Geth's choice for Geth's self-identification. No joke.

And so on.

It's just polite to call a person by that person's current name, even if that person used to have a different name or appearance.

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Getting back to All The Tropes...

I think Cwf1997 has had their habit of not checking what tropes mean before posting so-called examples of them. One official warning posted - next occurrence gets a tempban for "Refusing to learn from honest mistakes, or repeatedly making the same honest mistake after it's been pointed out"