retroactive

adj

1. (not-comparable)Extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions

   “Rather, he hoped there was some legal trickeration he could deploy to get a retroactive water right filed and end-run the opposition.”

   “Can such a child be ennobled by the passage of time, his struggles granted retroactive gravitas and his childish confusions rearticulated with adult clarity?”

   “Such assumptions can motivate expressions of cisgenderism such as retroactive misgendering (in which a person's past is described using language that disregards or contrasts with their current designation of their gender) […]”