If you want to help trans people, and you work in tech: think about how your product handles names and genders. Can users change them? Is it a self-service? Do traces of the old name remain?

Then, fix it. Push back against resistance. Advocate for us.

It won't fix bigotry, or healthcare access, or w/e. But updating our details is a process full of hurdles that we have to go through at a really vulnerable point in our lives, and you can make a small improvement for a large number of us.

@daisy that's for me also one of the biggest issues in Mastodon. I picked this @/username just because it was the first thing that came to my mind on a very bad night I needed to yell to the void. Having to create another account and migrate to it (leaving all my posts behind) makes me just not wanting to use this as much as I would like to.
@daisy I find it weird that you can't change it specially given how many queer people took part on building the fediverse.

@RallyVincent Agreed. The migration features are good, but it should also be possible to change your username while staying on the same instance and keep your post history.

No idea if that would be doable without changes to the ActivityPub spec, but I’m sure it’s not totally insurmountable.