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ti'e ka'u This is only forbidden as an insult to James Cooke Brown. However, this insult no longer makes sense to sustain, as it can no longer be delivered as intended. Instead, it now harms anybody who might desire the -mz- cluster for whatever use, including for Lojbanization of existing names. Frankly, I can't believe I have to argue in favor of this. It's obvious.
This example works much better with selbri whose underlying relations are clearly definitionally disjoint. I am not married to this example pair, and am okay with any other example pair which is more disjoint.
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In this 2022 review of Lojban's morphology, la selgu'a points out:
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Remove the -mz- rule, which ka'u was meant to insult the late James Cooke Brown. Additionally, change the infamous "manwoman" paragraph. The rest of Chapter 14 is largely unchanged; whether to change "James is a woman" can be independent of this change.