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Could be related to [[Embarrassing First Name]], but that is more about an annoyance. This one is more prideful and dramatic.
 
For obvious reasons, this is very common with [[Transsexualism|transsexual]] characters. There's a specific name forto identify this context: "deadnaming" is addressing someone by a name which they abandoned when they transitioned, while "misgendering" is addressing someone by the wrong pronouns. Both are to be avoided at all costs.
 
And then there's [[Porn Names|porn]], where performers would understandably want to keep their legal names and their stage names very separate.
 
Some entertainers invert this trope when they want to put their personas behind them (often because their work has become an [[Old Shame]] to them), refusing to answer to their [[Stage Name]]s.
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