That’s my worst failing too. It’s harder to reprogram the way our brains process names and identity than is even fair. I meet someone during or after transition, it’s easy peasy. Meet them before, especially long before, and it can take a year or more to be certain I never screw up. Yeah, after a month or so, it becomes rare, but sure as hell something about the past will come up and my brain slips a gear.

It would be nice if the brain (mine in particular) was a wee bit easier to repattern things like that