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I think this is an appropriate way to handle this. Given that PA is only recording albums at the title level and not at the issue/edition level, the name the artist currently uses ought to be used. 

If we were cataloging this at the issue level (a record for each edition of a title), older editions would contain the former dead name and that would have to be recorded as it appears on the item (one could also add a bracketed qualifier next to the name [now known as ...]), and newer editions would contain the new name and it would be recorded as such. The way to tie these older and newer editions together under the new name is by having the older name link to the new name using authority control (something that is way beyond the PA database's abilities). In library land (which is where my job is), this is how we currently handle older and newer editions where the name goes through changes. We've actually had these rules in place for well over a century in the library world. It's common among divorcees. 

^ Well, that depends on the ambitions PA has: does it want to be a catalogue that doesn't depend on politically correct issues at a given point of time or does it want to go with the flow...

I mean, a serious database doesn't give a damn about sexual, political, biological, animal, or whatever kind of preferences or norms. It has to be a-historic and a-political, the main objective being: does the person who consults the database can retrieve the data she/he is looking for. When you're leaving out data out of political correctness or for whatever reason, it will be more difficult to retrieve the data one's looking for. So, what is the function of PA's database? You have made your choice, but I'm not sure PA, as such, has a clear standpoint about it.

From my, archival/cataloguing, point of view, PA should include all names that have been attached to productions. If, as consequence, you consider me transphobic, then I think (and I personally know) you're wrong.

EP not studio

But all SYNAESTHESIA / KYROS releases contain now only new name.

Would you (or Cristi) like to rearrange them the way you'd expect? 

Even nick_h_nz writes: 

for albums where the dead name was the original name in the credits for the original release, then I would expect to see “Name (formerly known as/originally known on this release as [dead name] - role played as a member”

I can onlly add that usually on newer re-releases we see it in a slightly different order, i.e. Dead name (now New name) - role. 

In my opinion it would be fair if everyone would fix his own let's say (for the lack of a better word) imperfect changes. 

Am I wrong?