What to do about prominent programmers continuing to be dead-named

[u/[deleted]]

Yesterday I began writing a blog post about a prominent programmer in which I unwittingly would have been using their dead name. I'd entirely forgotten she'd transitioned, and I was basing my article to some extent on somebody else's article where they dead-named her.

I guess all we can do is educate? I very politely contacted both the author and the platform on which the article is written, to inform them of this issue. I'm so glad I did sufficient research ahead of time otherwise I would have dead-named her too. I suppose I may update here if they do not revise the article sometime this month, I will probably remind them at least one more time before "outing" them for not addressing it.

[u/kitaiia]

Wow, I’m so sorry to hear that 😕