(Go ahead, argue with me. Whatever notional safety you're adding by making sure every email and Teams chat from me comes from “Maximilian" doesn't outweigh the many annoyances this causes me and my colleagues, and if you think it does you've proved my point.)
@davidhmccoy To be clear, I like my name. But (as just one of many examples) when every email comes from “Maximilian,” correspondents feel compelled to type it out (no matter how I sign my messages), and in addition to wasting time typing it, they very frequently misspell it (even though they are typing it specifically because they see on the screen in front of them).
That kind of rule isn't for adding safety. It's for deadnaming trans people. If someone suggests such a rule to you, then that someone is probably a bigot.
@argv_minus_one This also wouldn’t surprise me. At the last place I worked where this was policy, I was told (without irony) thst it was to help defend against spear phishing. 🙄
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