SOPA Images via Getty Images Actress and activist Laverne Cox spoke out against IMDb's policy of publishing the "dead names" of transgender performers and film industry professionals.

IMDb announced a policy update on Monday allowing transgender industry professionals to remove their birth names from their profiles, but LGBTQ advocates feel the revisions don’t go far enough.

The popular film website issued the update after at least two trans actors with major television credits reported that their “dead names,” or the names they were assigned prior to their transition, had been published without their consent.

After IndieWire broke that news in June, the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) announced a coalition with a number of LGBTQ groups, including the National LGBTQ Task Force and the Transgender Law Center in protest of the practice.

On Monday, an IMDb spokesperson told Variety that the site would permit the removal of birth names “if the birth name is not broadly publicly known and the person no longer voluntarily uses their birth name.”

“To remove a birth name either the person concerned or their professional industry representative simply needs to contact IMDb’s customer support staff to request a birth name removal,” the spokesperson continued. “Once the IMDb team determines that an individual’s birth name should be removed — subject to this updated process — we will review and remove every occurrence of their birth name within their biographical page on IMDb.”

IMDb’s announcement came one day after Laverne Cox called the original policy “deeply, deeply traumatizing” for trans people in an IndieWire interview.

“Respecting trans people not wanting to be dead-named is a tricky thing,” the “Orange Is the New Black” star, who identifies as trans, said. “It’s very, very complicated because there’s a website that wants to be fully comprehensive, and then there’s just the deep, deep trauma and the abuse that actually can happen, too, when someone is dead-named.”

“Abuse is often attached to that, and violence is often attached to that,” she added.

On Tuesday, GLAAD called the new policy “a step in the right direction,” but added that it “remains imperfect” given that, in some cases, a transgender film industry professional’s “dead name” may still be visible.