Deadnames == what those awful transphobes would call "real names".
Posted on 06/07/2026 5:44:09 AM PDT by Salman
During the lead-up to a union election at Wizards of the Coast for Magic: The Gathering Arena, the company allegedly deadnamed a number of transgender employees in front of their colleagues. When confronted about this action, the company apologized, only to do the same thing again the following week during the election itself.
Kotaku has spoken to multiple union-eligible employees who explained the situation. According to them, WOTC and the group of employees filing for a union election agreed on an election to take place this week that would be in-person for in-office employees, and mail-in for remote employees. As a part of this process, WOTC submitted a list of employees eligible to vote to the National Labor Relations Board. Sources say that while WOTC has traditionally been friendly to transgender employees and widely supportive of their chosen names regardless of their legal names, and while the NLRB is open to using chosen names rather than legal names for elections, the list WOTC turned in to the NLRB included the legal names of all employees, including the deadnames of several transgender individuals. That list was then published on an internal website about the election that was accessible to everyone in the company.
Xib Vaine, one of the employees whose deadname was shared with their coworkers, said they found out about what had happened when a coworker messaged them and said they didn’t see their name on the list. “And I was like, ‘That’s weird.’ I went and checked and I was like, ‘Oh, I am on the list. It’s my deadname, which nobody at work knows ...
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Attention trannys and other assorted weirdos:
No one cares.
Thanks, that was good (and welcome) clarification.
Well if you need to use your “legal name to vote”, there you go…… Have to run the election legally, anti that a B!
Obviously the mentally ill individuals didn’t care enough to spend a few hundred dollars to change their names.
> Deadnames == what those awful transphobes would call “real names”. <
If you had given me a thousand guesses I wouldn’t have gotten that.
And to prove that I’m completely out of the loop, I had no idea something called “Wizards of the Coast for Magic” would have a union.
There is a whole lot of stupid in that story.
Trannies are a bunch of whiny freaks.
...and nobody at work knows you are trans
LOL, that’s funny!
That’s quite a take on Norman Rockwell.
So, the perverts get to vote twice
When the company sends a paycheck, whose name is on the check?
Is that like a BFD, or something?
Big time.
My thoughts exactly.
Dead names is a mentally ill construct.
It is good to know who the psychos are at work.
“Trannies are a bunch of whiny freaks.”
Sure works for them doesn’t it?
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