There is urgency here, too. The stakes of naming are not merely semantic. Laws, healthcare access, workplace protections, and the way violence maps onto bodies are all affected by how society names and recognizes people. When a name is stripped of dignity, the consequences can be lethal. When it is affirmed, doors—literal and metaphorical—open. Cindy’s dignity, then, is not an abstract virtue but a coalition of rights, respect, and the quiet permissions to be safe, to work, to love.