Thanks, that was how I had been doing it. I was just checking that it wasn’t offensive.

Ask them. A lot of us have extremely strong dislikes for our old names.

Thee are a lot of standards on doing that — I generally use the model:

“Current name” (formerly old name) did x

When referring to older stuff.

An example: Paul Blatt (formerly Lousie Herndon) was a mall cop in his youth.

IN my case, if anyone were to dig up my old name and stuff, I would personally prefer that they not use the old name. For anything. Ever.

In other words, treat it like you would treat someone who get’s married and changes their last name. Or someone who used a pen name befoe being discovered for temselves (a la Andre Norton).

It really just about that hard.

Names…always use the name and pronoun the person in question is using. That’s just basic.

Interestingly, knowing how seriously important it is to respect the names trans people choose for themselves has made me a lot more supportive and respectful of self-naming in general. Once upon a time I didn’t think people had the right to come up with their own nicknames outside of a trans context–and then I realized I was setting up a weird double standard by treating trans people’s chosen names as more valid than cis people’s (better than a double standard in the other direction, since calling someone Ted instead of Teddy isn’t likely to put them at risk of violence, but still a pointless double standard). Being trans has taught me a lot of important things about respecting everyone’s autonomy and right to self identify.