Columbia Journalism Review's daily newsletter had a link today to this story from CNN Business:
(The link:) 'It's Just Human Dignity': Trans writers and journalists truggle to get old bylines corrected
By Rachel Metz and Kerry Flynn, CNN Business
Updated 1258 GMT (2058 HKT) June 1, 2021
When Theresa Tanenbaum transitioned in 2019, she changed her name and began a years-long quest to correct the one she was given at birth — her deadname — on dozens of academic papers she published over the years.
For Tanenbaum, an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine who studies the theory and practice of interactive storytelling, there's a lot on the line. These papers — 83 publications across 15 publishers — catalog her work over more than a decade. But when she began asking publishers to correct her name on them, some said yes while others refused or ignored her.
As the title indicates, a major focus is on more general writing credits: people trying to get their old bylines updated in archived copies of the publications in which they appeared -- preferably without the usual footnote when a news report is corrected online explaining the change,
Eric
Not much of a change.
I changed my name in early 2005 and did not look back. Since then most people have been very nice. There will always be a few plonkers who seem to desire to make life hard for anyone they can. Very early I decided not to respond to them. It seemed best to simply walk away and to not respond to anyone that I'd known before. Those in the Church that I had once been so involved with seemed to be most hurtful. They ignored what Jesus said in the Good Book. They tried to use Deut. 22:5 to affirm God's condemnation of me but when the Son of a Jewish Rabbi told me that the passage was a mistranslation, it hurt less.
These days, it is clear that I can live the life of a Transwoman, but my studies of Anatomy and Physiology reveal to me that my Pelvis will never be right, I'll never have a Uterous or Ovaries, and so much more. It is best to do your best and forget the rest.
I often wonder now if it would have been easier to simply Cross-dress on Friday night? These many years later, those who really matter have found me and expressed their love for me.
And those divorcing ...
Some fraction of those divorcing will want to go back to a "maiden" or previous name.
Depending on what they think of the "ex", they may not not want any reminders or "paper ghosts" hanging about in all the files all the folks have on them.
In some jurisdictions the official name change may an optional part of the divorce decree itself. But there is still all the follow up...