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This is a pretty big stretch. It is not a human right that "everyone must call you by your chosen name". That is a matter of respect. The person you're responding to likewise brings up the point of respect. Like it or not respect isn't a human right.
Deadnaming a trans person is equivalent to telling them they are not who they say they are. If you deadname a trans woman as some sorta "gotcha" because they disagree with you, even if their rhetoric and actions harm the very community they're a part of, that's not far off from being the type to say "YWNBAW".
Their name is inherently connected to their identity. It's one thing to call Caitlyn some smarmy Trump-esque name like "kookie Caitlyn", or some other feminine name that isn't hers to mock her like "Candace" or "Karen", but in using her birth name/deadname, you are basically telling a trans person that their identity as their gender is invalid, and that they are only seen as the gender they identify with when they agree with you.
Instead of saying "you will never be a woman", it says "you are only a woman when I feel like you deserve to be one".
Kaitlyn supports trans rights for herself, nobody else matters to her. So she deserves no respect at all. I won't deadname her but that is my choice. She is a dumbfuck selfish cunt and that cuntiness knows no gender.
Okay, so let's take that same logic and apply it elsewhere.
Kanye West is an out and proud nazi. Do I have the right then to call him the hard r because I disagree with him?
If you believe he is then do what you feel is real. I'm not the arbitrator of your speech.
This is such a cheap cop-out, and says more than you think it does about how much you tolerate bigotry.
I'll make my way.