User talk:DanaValerie

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Hello, DanaValerie, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions.

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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your messages on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or ask your question on this page and then place {{Help me}} before the question. Again, welcome! – voidxor 00:24, 16 July 2021 (UTC)

There has been some question about my name change due to being a Transgender woman. It seems it has been very difficult for the Wikipedia editors to understand or come to terms with, and perhaps even deal with prejudices regarding my status, and they danced around the wording for years over what to call me. Especially since the original SPF specification gave credit to my "dead name". So I clarified it myself, and uploaded a copy of the relevant court documents showing the legal name change so that the article could properly and respectfully refer to me. I did not intend to change the content of the article in any other way. If I were not Transgender, this would not even be an issue, but I was offended that I was being 'dead named' in the SPF article, and I find it disturbing that transgender women even need to explain themselves in this way that cisgendered people do not. But they do, so I did. I stand by my decision to do so, it was unfortunate that I needed to go to the extremes that I did to lessen the 'dead naming' that was occurring, and I would expect better out of a community that seems intent on doing the right thing. For the record, I am happy with the way it was finally resolved, and the way my name current appears in the SPF encyclopedia article at the time of this writing - Dana Valerie Reese DanaValerie (talk) 10:55, 22 October 2022 (UTC)