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Someone on a queer youth web-forum pointed this out the other day, and I started noticing it myself. Recently I've started adding a lot of old friends to my Facebook account, for a whole bunch of reasons - a desire to see what they're up to, an attempt to keep gossip about me well-informed, and(vainly) to see how many of them recognise me(quite a few don't).
The ones that do, though(or the ones that work it out from the various blatant hints on my Facebook profile, or the ones who already knew from other sources) have a tendency to message me and ask how things are going. Which is fine. What's not cool is when they address me as "Kyle".
It should be made pretty plain by my profile that I'm not 'Kyle' anymore. I'm sure in their mind it's a way of saying "I know that you're Kyle, so you don't have to explain things", but that's not how it comes across. It comes across as rude, to be frank.
Still, I can't see any way to authoritatively deal with it without seeming like
I swear, one of these days I'll make a post that isn't about trans issues.