Reminder: This is gaslighting and abuse apologetics...
Let's just recap what happened here... Just for anyone who wasn't paying attention.
Dia had been on Tumblr as Dia for half a decade. Dia's system claimed to change hosts last year around the time they faked a suicide attempt over syscourse. At the time, the new host, Gio, said it was okay for people to call them by the name of the former host, Dia.
Dia secretly ran another blog called Mitsuki for years. This was a full-fledged fake identity, pretending to be a fully separate system. As Mitsuki, Dia made posts about wanting to kill and sexually assault me personally during a crashout last August. Dia also abused and fakeclaimed "Mitsuki's" friends over a period of months.
Dia then went on to make a blog that pretended to be to be Mitsuki's abuser, filling syscourse with triggering content. Then Dia through that blog threatened to rape Mitsuki (who does not exist) if people continued interacting with the blog claiming to be the abuser.
Once we started publicly accusing Dia of being Mitsuki, Dia pivoted to saying it was transphobic to accuse Dia of being Mitsuki. Dia's "logic" was that they used different pronouns and therefore accusing them of using Mitsuki as a fake identity was bigoted.
This line of "reasoning" was then backed up by several of Dia's friends like OopsAllSyscourse above and Ellipse-Society. Dia's friends started accusing the people who called out Dia's fake identity of being bigoted for pointing out the connections.
And I need to pause right here so anyone reading this can just process just how utterly EVIL this is. A monstrous abuser faked an identity. They used that identity to abuse many people, myself included. Then when called out for that, they turned the accusations around to try to make the accusers out to be transphobic.
And Dia's friends repeated these accusations.
Every single one of them who repeated these talking points were accomplices in helping Dia carry out its abuse!
Around this time, Dia also rolled out the talking point saying it was transphobic to call their system "Dia." (The new host by that point was named Sunny. There was another host change after Gio.)
This is despite the fact...
Dia isn't a deadname. We know Dia's deadname because Dia scammed people out of money on a GoFundMe which requires using your real legal name.
"Sunny" isn't the system's actual name either. We know that too because we know Dia's current legal name too!
"Dia" was still a headmate. It's not like a headmate changed its name to Dia. There was a host change. But Dia is still Dia.
Dia also didn't go dormant. Dia was still there. Still part of the system.
Dia and Sunny both used it/its pronouns as host.
The previous host was perfectly okay with being called Dia, and "Sunny" never showed signs of having a problem with it until it became convenient to avoid accountability and paint its victims as the bad guys.
From the beginning, this talking point was in bad faith.
Dia's system rolled out the talking point of it being bigoted to call it Dia for two reasons.
Dia wanted to revictimize its accusers by smearing them as transphobic.
Dia wanted to create confusion. It's already a difficult story to keep track of. You have Mitsuki and the blog claiming to be Mitsuki's abuser, and so many different names to follow in this convoluted manipulation. Everybody knew Dia as Dia. Demanding people change the name they're talking about adds to that, making it even more difficult to follow.
This is part of the gaslighting!
It's another way to obscure Dia's actions!
This was not a good faith identity change. This was an abuser, a monster, one of the sickest most evil creatures in syscourse, getting called out on its lies while they unraveled, and flailing desperately to find a way to protect itself and cause further harm to its victims.
And on top of all the abuse apologetics, it frankly downplays and minimizes actual deadnaming.