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I know she deserves everything bad coming her way but this is still just transphobia...
How so? They're not calling her Bruce, they're stating the fact that the person that she's worshipping decreed that she legally has to be called by her birth name, Bruce.
Not sure how pointing out someone acting like Uncle Ruckus is transphobic. Is it antisemitic to point out that Jewish members were the first group purged from the Nazi party?
I'm genuinely curious, what about it comes across as transphobia to you?
not OP, but I'm in two minds about it. I don't really care to step in on caitlyn's behalf, she can kick rocks for all I care. and I don't think the intent of the post was hateful, but whenever a trans person does something bad and newsworthy, deadnames start to come out and even if it's directed at someone I actively despise it still sucks to read. revoking someone's chosen name out of personal disgust is just something we deal with irl a lot. it's a similar kind of ick as when a female politician does something reprehensible and the discourse gets flooded by a bunch of people crudely commenting on her appearance.
eta: with a very minor change this same exact point could be made without deadnaming her, so to me it's uncomfortable and unnecessary.
Yeah this is exactly how I feel and why I didn't really wanna argue about this further, she's the last person I'd wanna defend but I still felt like it should be pointed out.
revoking someone’s chosen name out of personal disgust
The tweet does not call Caitlyn Bruce, it's telling Caitlyn than the president ordered the government to call her Bruce.
Mentioning a deadname is not the same as deadnaming, this is not like saying "Jehovah" or something. I understand that just bringing up someone's deadname can be jarring to at least a portion of trans people but, like, that's the point here. Shock her into realising what's being done to, also, her.