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But I suppose I'm worried that my motivation here is too much "I want to wash my hands of the situation" and not enough "something good will happen because I'm doing this."
There's also this background anxiety I have around what I said last night about the obligations of public representatives. I've had no choice but to take on the trans representative role since I came out, and as my platform grows so does that obligation.
And to be honest I'm often not sure I'm up to it. Everything I said about Singal's failures will at some point be said about me. Much of it already has. What does being a good representative involve in my case? Do I just visibly be myself? Or do I have to toe a more generic line?
I'm an abnormal trans person. I wasn't a trans child. I think of myself as transitioning from one gender to another rather than expressing an inherent essence. My sexual orientation has shifted with my transition. I have a performative, non-ontological view of what gender even is
Far from having "joined the transcult" I think I'm fairly heterodox. I was being serious yesterday when I said I like having nuanced freespeechy conversations about this kind of thing. But for the good of the community do I need to keep this shit to myself?
I know there will come a time where I'm accused of failing to be a good representative. And I guess I need to prepare myself for that so I'm mentally ready to handle it correctly.
In the meantime idk I guess my plan is to ease into a kind of generic yas-queening around on Twitter, and in my videos experiment with expressing some of my views in the voice of COMPLETELY FICTIONAL CHARACTERS.
You should not be obligated to fill the role of Public Trans Representative, whether that label is affixed to you from within or outside the community. No single person should. The only person you should be responsible for representing is Natalie Wynn.
So much this. In general it is v. dangerous for newly out trans people to publicly speak on trans issues that are outside of their lived experience, and it's especially dangerous to take interviews from cis journos one hasn't vetted. Feels like Natalie has learned the hard way.
You speak for a lot of us. Please remember to always try and speak well. I love your channel, use it as you always have, as a medium of resistance to the right-wing crap we have to contend with. Or more simply put, continue fighting the good fight.
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