A sociologist studies the family dynamics of marie, a transgender woman who was raised as a boy named max. the sociologist notices marie's father "deadnaming" her. what is he doing?
He is calling her by her old name. Deadnaming refers to the act of using someone's original name - a dead name is the name which no longer exists, or which a person (usually a transgender person) no longer uses given that he/she has adopted a new name. Marie's father is deadnaming her, which means that he calls her Max, even though that is not her name anymore.
