NY Times Guild Calls on Paper to Correct Past Bylines and Stop Deadnaming Trans Journalists
said that even in cases where a subject’s gender identity is integral to the story, “it serves no purpose of integrity to publish a transgender person’s ‘deadname,’ or former name.” The group has criticized the New York Times’ 2020 obituary of Aimee Stephens, a woman at the center of a Supreme Court case about workplace discrimination against transgender people, that had initially included her birth name. It was subsequently removed.The guild statement went on, “This puts our trans colleagues in danger.