Things you wanted to know about trans people and were rude enough to ask

Transgenders often have to put up with the most offensive questions.

I WOULD predict that every trans person who has ever come out has been asked a variation on the question, “But what was your old name?” Or the ruder version, “But what’s your real name?” Or the slightly bizarre, “But what was your birth name?” I’d like to know how many of us are born with names.