{"id":82874,"date":"2022-06-03T10:19:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T14:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=82874"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:09:29","slug":"emme-reynolds-mastercard-true-name-campaign","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/emme-reynolds-mastercard-true-name-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Emme Reynolds Featured in Mastercard’s True Name Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Emme Reynolds<\/a>, communications officer for Carleton\u2019s MacOdrum Library was recently featured in Mastercard\u2019s True Name campaign, promoting the company\u2019s new feature that provides transgender and nonbinary people in Canada with a reflective ID, without requiring a legal name change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“For Emme Reynolds of Ottawa, credit and debit cards also carry with them a certain amount of stress because they\u2019re just another opportunity in one\u2019s day to be ‘deadnamed’ or misgendered. ‘It’s wild to see how many times in a day your old name can pop up,’ they say.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s exhausting to see the name and to be misgendered.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Reynolds hasn\u2019t changed their own name legally because they say it\u2019s a cumbersome process that they\u2019re not ready to tackle. They intentionally don\u2019t look at credit cards inside their wallet, because the cards serve as a constant reminder of their former self.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019ve turned more to online shopping, in part due to the pandemic but also to avoid misgendering and intrusive questions when shopping in stores. But online shopping with a credit card is tough too. While Reynolds can change their shipping name, their billing name is their former name that\u2019s still on their credit card.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The True Name feature eliminates those discomforts. \u201cIt\u2019s about having something that\u2019s finally me,\u201d Reynolds says.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cIt gives me something to look at that represents the me I\u2019m moving towards.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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